Oil and natural gas refining in Turkmenistan
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Turkmenistan, a country rich in both oil and natural gas, has developed a sub-sector in its economy related to the refining of those two sorts of fossil fuels.
Oil refining
There are two oil refineries in Turkmenistan, located in the cities of Türkmenbaşy and Seýdi.
The Türkmenbaşy oil refinery is the larger of the two refineries, with a capacity of more than 10 million tons of oil per year. The refinery produces a range of products, including unleaded gasoline, petroleum coke, asphalt, laundry detergent, hydro-treated diesel, and lube oil. The Turkmen government has demonstrated interest in attracting foreign investment to build factories producing end-user petroleum based products such as detergents and tires. The refinery reported that its products are exported to Russia, China, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Japan.
Turkmenistan has invested US$900 million in a number of projects designed to help increase the country's refining capacity by 95 percent by 2030. The projects include the construction of a facility for coking (carbonization) and tar de-asphalting with annual capacity of 900,000 and 500,000 tons, respectively. The government of Turkmenistan also constructed a facility to produce asphalt with an annual capacity of 38,000 tons as well as a facility to produce polypropylene film and an oil refinery with a capacity of 3 billion tons per year. Turkmenistan has commissioned a feasibility study regarding the construction of a new oil refinery in its Balkan province.
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