All three fuels rose. Petrol from the three neighbours reached 13,800 tonnes, from 8,400 in June. Diesel jumped to 17,600 tonnes from 2,450, and jet fuel to 2,500 tonnes from 316.
Russia sent 14,100 tonnes of petrol, half of the month before. Its diesel held almost flat at 30,000 tonnes, down 2%. It sent no aviation kerosene at all.
“2,500 tonnes of jet fuel came from the neighbours in a month when Russia sent none.”
Pumps moved with the flows. AI-92 reached 12.0 to 12.5 somoni a litre in early August, about $1.30 to $1.36 at Thursday's rate of 9.22 somoni to the dollar, from 11.0 to 11.2 somoni in early June. Summer diesel sells at 16.5 to 18.5 somoni, $1.79 to $2.01.
Dushanbe is talking to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, Iraq and Belarus about more.
Kyrgyzstan is running the same search. Cabinet chairman Adylbek Kasymaliev said on 5 August, in a podcast with the state agency Kabar relayed by Spot, that Uzbekistan can supply up to 20,000 tonnes a month. We carried his post-cap price range on Wednesday: 130 to 140 som a litre for diesel, 110 to 120 for petrol, against state caps that run to 30 September.
July is the first month in which the substitution can be measured. Whether the neighbours hold 34,000 tonnes is an August question, and Dushanbe's list of talks runs to five more countries.