Kazakhstan oil production rose 20.7% in January-May 2001

/IRBIS, June 21, 01/ - REUTERS informs, with the reference to Statistics agency of Kazakhstan, that Kazakhstan oil production grew 20.7% in January-May 2001, up to 14,333m tons relative to similar period of last year. Statistics agency has also provided with the data on production of natural gas and some other petroleum products. ---------------------------------------------------------- Production of natural gas and January- petroleum products May April May ------------------------------ ------- ------- -------- Crude oil (mln tons) 3.008 2.933 14.333 to previous month, % +2.6 +0.5 NA to previous year, % +21.5 +23.3 +20.7 ------------------------------ ------- ------- -------- Gas condensate (thousand tons) 388.6 339.8 2,076.5 to previous month, % +14.4 -26.7 NA to previous year, % +20.2 -6.9 +8.6 ------------------------------ ------- ------- -------- Gross natural gas production (mln cubic meters) 1,072.5 1,029.8 5,238.3 to previous month, % +4.1 -11.7 NA to previous year, % +21.1 +11.1 +9.9 ------------------------------ ------- ------- -------- Gasoline (thousand tons) 190.2 125.7 645.1 to previous month, % +51.3 +11.7 NA to previous year, % +69.5 -18.7 +12.9 ------------------------------ ------- ------- -------- Fuel oil (thousand tons) 242.0 210.5 1,055.0 to previous month, % +15.0 -6.2 NA to previous year, % +22.5 -12.1 +1.0 ------------------------------ ------- ------- -------- Gas-oil (thousand tons) 182.1 237.3 881.2 to previous month, % -23.3 +49.6 NA to previous year, % +8.7 +0.4 +4.9 ----------------------------------------------------------