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Mongolia’s newest petrol train is 5 to 6 days of use, and Russia keeps its diesel ban to 31 October

The 13,000 tonnes of AI-92 petrol that reached Ulaanbaatar by rail in 217 wagons cover 5 to 6 days of normal use, the head of the oil department at the Mineral Resources and Petroleum Authority, D. Davaabayar, said at a briefing on Wednesday. Sixty-eight of the wagons had reached the unloading station. The same morning Russia’s government extended its producers’ ban on diesel exports to 31 October.

By CAW Staff30 September 2026
A top-down schematic of a single rail line from the north to a capital with wagons as dots and a dense cluster at the end.

The train is a consignment, and the stock is another figure. On Tuesday the fuel headquarters counted 20,500 tonnes of AI-92 in the country, or 10 days, 85,600 tonnes of diesel, or 21 days, and 140 wagons of petrol arriving that day, Ikon reported. Supplies from Russia and China through Sukhbaatar and Zamyn-Uud continue, Davaabayar said in News.mn’s account, and October’s orders are being confirmed with the suppliers.

Davaabayar also gave 59,000 tonnes of AI-92, 185,000 tonnes of diesel and 11,000 tonnes of jet fuel as the products imported, a period he did not state.

Mongolia took about 215,000 tonnes of Russian diesel in August, on Reuters’s count of traders’ data, the largest of the four buyers in that count ahead of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, and its petrol comes by the same railway.

Two retailers described the lines at their pumps. Ulambayar, sales manager at the Super92 chain, said its 5 stations in the capital were carrying twice the normal load and that deliveries to Mongolia had fallen 20 to 30% below the earlier volumes because of the fuel situation inside Russia, though wagons were arriving daily. Jamyangarav of M-Oil said the chain was supplying its stations without interruption and that long lines at some stations created the look of a shortage.

The Russian decision of the morning is resolution 1252 of 29 September, which extends to 31 October inclusive the ban on exports of diesel, marine fuel and other gasoils by the companies that produce them, to keep the domestic market stable during the harvest, the government said at 10:00 Moscow time. Before it the producers’ ban ran to 30 September and the traders’ to 31 January 2027, and the ban on petrol exports runs to the same date, Interfax reported.

Mongolia took about 215,000 tonnes of Russian diesel in August, on Reuters’s count of traders’ data, the largest of the four buyers in that count ahead of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan, and its petrol comes by the same railway. Unresolved: whether Mongolia’s supplies under its intergovernmental contracts sit inside the resolution’s exceptions, which the government’s release does not list.

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