Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Jan.13
By Huseyn Hasanov- Trend:
In 2013 the growth rate of gasoline production in Turkmenistan amounted to 102.1 percent, diesel fuel - 100.1 percent, kerosene - 100.2 percent, lubricants - 100.3 percent, petroleum bitumen - 127.7 percent, petroleum coke - 100.3 percent, polypropylene - 103 percent, the Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Turkmenistan said in its statement.
According to the statement, Turkmenistan annually produces about 10 million tons of oil, the greatest part of which is processed at local oil refineries.
Turkmenistan plans to bring the oil refining capacity to 15 million tons of oil per year in 2015 and up to 20 million tons of oil per year in 2020.
Two refineries operate in Turkmenistan in the cities of Seidi and Turkmenbashi. The latter is the largest enterprise in the country. A full scale reconstruction is being carried out in the Turkmenbashi refinery with the participation of large firms from Germany, Iran, Israel, the U.S., Turkey, France and Japan.
Earlier it was reported that several international tenders in the oil refining area will soon be announced in Turkmenistan.
The tenders are for the design and construction of diesel fraction hydro-treating, catalytic cracking and coking petrol hydrodesulphurisation units.
The tender program also includes the reconstruction of a millisecond catalytic cracking unit, the construction of the catalytic cracking of heavy oil residues, the reconstruction of the power supply system of refineries and other projects in the cities of Turkmenbashi and Sadie.
Some 6.535 million tons of raw materials were processed at Turkmenistan's refining complex in 2012.