Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has set the task to fully meet the internal market’s demand for domestic oil products - gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel and gas by 2018, the press service of the president said.
“It is important to liberalize oil and gas market, return commercial functions to the refineries,” Trend cited him as saying.
Nazarbayev noted that by 2021, oil production volumes in Kazakhstan will reach 92 million tons per year. Gasoline production in 2015 in Kazakhstan amounted to 2.9 million tons, which is 4.9% less than in 2014.
