The ministry published the details on Thursday, Asia-Plus reported. The Times of Central Asia carried the breakdown from the same material: 2 million tons of crude for processing at Tajik refineries, 300,000 tons of diesel, 150,000 tons of gasoline and 100,000 tons of aviation fuel.
Behind the figures sits the 15 August meeting in Tehran between Energy and Water Resources Minister Daler Juma and Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad. The sides agreed to set up a working group on export mechanisms and on crude supply to Tajik refineries, Tehran Times reported, and Tajikistan's transport minister, who chairs the joint cooperation committee, was in the room.
Whether tonnage of this size can physically move is now the working group's problem.
One figure frames the ask. Freight between the two countries ran to 432,800 tons in the first half of the year, up 17.5 percent, most of it by rail. Annualized, the request runs to roughly three times that flow.
Direction is the story. The Diplomat estimates that Russia supplies about 90 percent of Tajikistan's oil-product imports, and a transit agreement signed in Mashhad in July paves the way for overland shipments of Iranian cargo through Afghanistan, with a trial run planned for August. Whether tonnage of this size can physically move is now the working group's problem, and the reason the transport minister was at the table.