Uzbekistan will import more than 1 million tons of oil and oil products from Russia in 2023

Uzbekistan plans to increase the volume of imports of oil and petroleum products from Russia in 2023 to more than 1 million tons, the Minister of Energy of the Republic, Zhurabek Mirzamakhmudov, told reporters on the sidelines of the XVI Eurasian Economic Forum in Samarkand.

“We are looking at oil and petroleum products in general, more than 1 million tons,” he said.

He did not specify how much oil and petroleum products were imported last year, but noted that the volume of supplies was “slightly less.”

The minister also said that this year Uzbekistan has already imported about 300 million cubic meters from Russia in transit through Kazakhstan. m of gas.

As Vedomosti wrote, in 2023 Uzbekistan agreed with “Gazprom oil” on the supply of 300,000 tons of oil. This was announced at the end of April by the head of the main department of the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan, Athamjon Ubaydullaev. In March of this year, Kaztransoil reported that it plans to supply 250,000 tons of Russian oil to Uzbekistan in transit from Russia. But already in August, the director of the Kaztransoil transportation department, Abay Beisembayev, said that the plan for transporting Russian oil to Uzbekistan for this year was reduced to 180,000 tons. In the first half of the year, 48,500 tons of oil were supplied from Russia, and in the second it is planned to pump 131,500 T.

In June “Gazprom“and the government of Uzbekistan entered into a contract for the supply of Russian gas to the republic in transit through Kazakhstan. A two-year contract between Gazprom Export (a subsidiary of Gazprom) and Uzgaztrade provides for the supply of Russian gas from October 1, 2023 in the amount of 9 million cubic meters. per day. The annual supply volume under the contract will be about 2.8 billion cubic meters. m.