Kazakhstan to exempt minor oil refineries from licensing

Kazakh Minister for Oil and Gas Sauat Mynbayev has proposed lifting
licensing for minor oil refineries, News Kazakhstan reports.

Kazakhstan has 35 refineries, 3 of them large and 32 small. The only
demand should be fulfilment of Euro-2 standards and Euro-4 and 5 in
the future, the minister underlined.

The 32 minor refineries do not produce Euro-2 petrol. Most of their
products have been banned since 2010.