Industry and Mineral Resources Minister Damdinnyam Gongor announced the trip on Sunday. “Tomorrow I go to Moscow”, he said, then Kazakhstan, “then straight to Beijing”, all of it about fuel. He counted the journey as his ninth in a year of running the sector.
The Beijing leg follows the request Prime Minister Uchral put to the general manager of PetroChina Dachin Tamsag on Saturday: a standing 12,000 to 15,000 tonnes of AI-92 a month. China has agreed to 6,000 tonnes for August. The rail stopgap from Russia, meanwhile, delivered 15,158 tonnes of AI-92 through Sukhbaatar in the first week of August, and the pump cap holds at ₮50,000 a day (about $14): the proposed doubling to ₮100,000 remains unadopted.
The first storage answer is nearly built. San Petroleum’s 16,000 cubic metre depot in Ulaanbaatar’s Songinokhairkhan district, part of a 22-depot program across 18 companies, stands 95% complete and is due to finish by 20 August, financed by a ₮10 billion (about $2.8 million) concessional loan at 9% a year. Officials say it will hold 13 days of the capital’s AI-92 demand.
Uchral also set a deadline on the structural answer on Monday, ordering officials to bring the Altanshiree refinery online by 2028. The project includes a 527 km crude pipeline from Matad, and the plant is designed to cover about 55% of domestic product demand. And the capital published its COP17 transport plan: 60 buses on airport routes from 13 August and 100 more running 35 hotels to the venue, with delegates riding free on credentials. The odd-even driving restriction starting Saturday is framed by city officials as congestion relief for the school season and the conference influx.