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Dushanbe takes fuel supply to the US envoy as Russia ships 73% of its oil products

Energy and water minister Daler Juma discussed the supply of Tajikistan’s domestic market with oil products with the US charge d’affaires in Dushanbe on Thursday, the ministry reported, without naming sources or volumes. Tajikistan imported 1.37 million tonnes of fuel and liquefied gas worth $1.13 billion in nine months, and Russia supplied 73.2 per cent of the oil-product bill, by Asia-Plus’s count.

By CAW Staff9 October 2026
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The meeting in Dushanbe on Thursday covered the state and prospects of cooperation in energy and water and, separately, the current situation on Tajikistan’s domestic market and its supply with oil products, the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources said, without saying which aspects of supply were discussed, whether new import sources were considered or whether anything was agreed, as Asia-Plus noted at 11:04 on Friday. Both sides expressed readiness to continue the dialogue, the ministry’s note ends.

Tajikistan imported about 1.37 million tonnes of oil, oil products, liquefied gas and related goods worth about $1.13 billion in January to September, by the foreign trade statistics the outlet compiled: 333,200 tonnes of petrol for $292.2 million, 424,800 tonnes of diesel for $399.1 million, 50,700 tonnes of kerosene including jet fuel for $56.2 million and 321,300 tonnes of liquefied gas for $218.9 million, with lubricants, bitumen and petroleum coke in the remainder. Seven dollars in ten of Tajikistan’s oil-product import bill went to Russia in nine months.

Russia shipped about 708,000 tonnes of oil products worth $628.9 million, 73.2 per cent of the category’s import value, with Turkmenistan second at 100,300 tonnes for $117.4 million, then Uzbekistan at 36,200 tonnes for $38.1 million, Belarus at 19,700 for $21.4 million, Iran at 15,600 for $14.7 million, Kazakhstan at 9,100 for $9 million and Kyrgyzstan at 10,200 for $4.2 million. Liquefied gas runs the other way: Kazakhstan supplied about 225,600 tonnes for $153.8 million and Russia 94,800 tonnes for $64.6 million.

Seven dollars in ten of Tajikistan’s oil-product import bill went to Russia in nine months.

The supplier that covers seven tenths of the bill has closed its fuel-export data by decree 686 since the end of September and keeps its diesel export ban for producers to 31 October, by resolution 1252, which is the background to a Tajik minister raising supply with an American diplomat. The ministry’s note names no volumes, and the trade statistics name the dependence.

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