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Tajikistan triples its fuel imports from the neighbours
Tajikistan took 34,000 tonnes of motor fuel from Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in July, three times the June volume, while Russian petrol shipments to the country halved. The Moscow Times relayed the Reuters figures on Thursday, citing two industry sources.
Tashkent sends its geologists deeper
The same day its office published the demand number that sends jet-fuel buyers abroad, Uzbekistan’s presidency reviewed the supply answer: $38.8 million for seismic modernisation, surveys reading down to 8,000 metres and a directive on uninterrupted fuel.
Mongolia rations the pump, and Bishkek pays double
From today Mongolian filling stations serve cars by the last digit of the plate, with each purchase capped at 50,000 tugriks, roughly $13. In Bishkek the cabinet orders tight control of a market where petrol now costs nearly twice what it does across the Kazakh border.
A 27% jump in demand sends Uzbekistan’s jet-fuel buyers to Georgia and Iraq
Tashkent says it needs 375,000 tonnes of aviation fuel in the second half of the year, 27% more than a year earlier, and the supplier that used to cover the region’s gap has all but left the market: Russian jet-fuel deliveries to Central Asia fell by more than 92% in June against May.
The drone war off Novorossiysk stops sparing crews
Since Saturday the approaches to Kazakhstan’s main export outlet have seen a cargo ship sunk and a Turkish-crewed freighter set ablaze, with three sailors gravely wounded. The terminal that carries more than 80% of Kazakh oil exports keeps loading at a third of its June intake, and July’s total has still not been published.
Mongolia queues for petrol two weeks before COP17
AI-92 stocks fell by nearly half in three weeks to 17 days of consumption, queues at the pumps run five and six hours, and the government’s answer is measured in storage tanks and years.
Chevron speaks first on the CPC
The fullest account of the damaged export route came from Houston on Friday: the pipeline is flowing, two of three moorings are working, and Washington and Astana are discussing guarantees to keep it that way.
The CPC’s reprieve lasts three days
Drones struck two tankers serving the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s Black Sea terminal early on Thursday, and the consortium stopped loading for the second time in 10 days. The route carries more than 80% of Kazakhstan’s oil exports.
Dushanbe opens two Chinese generation tracks in one day
Tajikistan’s energy minister met China Energy about a 200 MW solar plant in the north and China Gezhouba about two hydropower plants on the Zarafshan, both on Tuesday.
Bishkek petrol runs up to 8.5 som over the state cap
The ceiling for AI-92 is 79.9 som a litre. Five Bishkek networks were selling it between 84.9 and 88.4 on Tuesday. The state’s answer that afternoon was a voluntary agreement with the traders
Atyrau loses power on the day the plan gets its deadlines
The prime minister set year-end deadlines for the repair campaign at 11:15 on Tuesday. By evening, load-shedding automatics had cut more than 6,000 homes on Atyrau’s left bank.
Tashkent puts an AI on 106,000 energy workers
A day after the energy minister was dismissed, Uzbekistan has a new centre monitoring the whole sector workforce against ten indicators. The loss figures behind the decision came out with it.
A 20% reserve margin appears in a Kazakh plan
The cabinet put its energy and utilities national project on the table on Tuesday morning. Inside it sits a target for spare capacity, with a date on it.
Dushanbe says the Russian petrol ban should not reach it
Russia supplies 72.3% of the fuel Tajikistan burns. Its energy minister says the indicative balance has recently run into difficulty, and that the export ban extended last week should not in principle touch deliveries made under an intergovernmental agreement.
The pipeline restarts after production halved
CPC began taking Kazakh crude again on Sunday evening. By then national output was running at about half its June average, roughly twice the drop that had been reported all week.
Kyrgyzstan rewrites its fuel subsidy for a wider border
Moscow will hold its gasoline export ban to the end of the year. Bishkek is redrafting its subsidy rules so that supported fuel can arrive at any crossing point, from any third country.
A fifth of the country’s output, gone in a day
Kazakhstan’s oil and condensate output fell from a July average of 2.07 million barrels a day to 1.63 million on 22 July, Reuters reported: a fall of about 21% in one day, most of it at Tengiz.
Bishkek lines up fuel from four directions
At a briefing in Bishkek on 21 July the energy minister, Altynbek Rysbekov, named the sources now filling Kyrgyzstan’s tanks: a first consignment dispatched from China by road, Belarusian fuel already arriving by rail, Kazakh fuel oil at 15,000 to 20,000 tons a month, and a tolling arrangement with Uzbekistan. Russia still supplies more than 90% of Kyrgyzstan’s gasoline; in this particular list it appears as the corridor Belarusian fuel travels through.
A $25 million refinery signs into Kyrgyzstan’s fuel gap
The cabinet signed an investment agreement on 20 July with the company Central Asian Energy to build and operate a refinery in Kochkor-Ata: $25 million, capacity above 450,000 tons of products a year, with a first stage due by the end of 2026. Construction has already begun.
Uzbekistan’s grid runs a fifth record day
Daily consumption hit 293.4 million kilowatt-hours on 17 July, 7.6% above last summer’s maximum, and the energy ministry counted five consecutive record days through the weekend. On Monday four Tashkent districts were warned of possible short outages; relief arrives with the heat easing from Tuesday.