Kazakhstan increased gas transportation by 18% last year
13:26, 2 February 2012
ASTANA. February 2. KAZINFORM /Serik Sabekov/ Kazakhstan has increased transportation of gas by 18 percent in 2011. Minister of Oil and Gas Sauat Mynbayev has announced at the Ministry's board meeting.
According to him, the increase was achieved mainly due to transit of the Turkmen gas to China.
As S.Mynbayev noted, there is a decrease in transit of the Uzbek gas through the territory of our country to Russia.
Due to gaining access to the Turkmen gas, in the last heating season we consumed 283 million cubic meters of gas.
In the current heating season it is planned to use 500 283 million cubic meters of the Turkmen gas.