The stone was laid on 6 September on the company's site by deputy energy minister Sharifa Khudobakhsh and the district chairman, Azizullo Alizoda, in the run of events for the 35th anniversary of independence and the oil and gas workers' professional day.
Salosa has produced and processed oil since 2003 and employs more than 100 people. By its own account it works three fields in Khatlon, Yuzhny Kum, Kichikbel and Akbashadyr, on a licence area of 696 hectares with 38 producing wells. The crude is mostly heavy, and the plant turns it into bitumen, fuel oil and furnace fuel. Diesel and petrol are the promise of the new line.
The perimeter is the point. Tajikistan imported 1.21 million tonnes of oil products in 2025 for $959.3 million, about 84% of them from Russia, on the Antimonopoly Service's count; the first half of this year ran at 599.5 thousand tonnes with Russia at 91.1%. A 50,000-tonne line, at full rate, covers 4% of last year's imports and none of this summer's price: Dushanbe diesel is up about 50% since June and AI-92 about a quarter, on the pump figures CAW printed on 2 September.
Diesel and petrol are the promise of the new line.
The other route to product runs through Tehran. The request Dushanbe put to Iran, reported by CAW on 1 September, asked for 2.55 million tonnes, 2 million of it crude oil, which is refined before it reaches a pump; no answer from the Iranian side has surfaced in the channels CAW reads.