BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 2. The volume of oil production in Kazakhstan amounted to 6.6 million tons in March 2022, which is 5.2 percent more than in March 2021 and 7.3 percent more than in February 2022, Trend reports citing Kazakh Statistics Committee.
The volume of production amounted to 19.4 million tons in the first quarter of 2022, which is 8.6 percent more than in the same period last year.
A total of 6.4 million tons of this volume were exported in March 2022, which means an increase of 12.8 percent compared to March 2021 and 9.8 percent compared to February 2022.
Exports for the period from January through March 2022 amounted to 18.05 million tons, which is 12 percent more than in the same period last year.
Some 180,600 tons of oil were sold on the domestic market in March 2022, which is 68.8 percent less than in March 2021 and 40.2 percent less than in February 2022.
Sales in the domestic market amounted to 1.4 million tons of oil in the period from January through March 2022, which is 21.9 percent less than in the same period last year.
