/IRBIS, Aug 14, 01/ - REUTERS informs, with the reference to Statistics agency of Kazakhstan, that in Kazakhstan oil production grew by 21.8% in January-July 2001, up to 20,446m 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.

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Production of natural gas and                    January-
petroleum products                 July    June      July
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Crude oil (mln tons)              3.127   2.985    20.446
to previous month, %               +4.7     0.0        NA
to previous year, %               +21.0   +28.2     +21.8
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Gas condensate (thousand tons)    313.4   371.2   2,761.1
to previous month, %              -15.6    -4.5        NA
to previous year, %               -14.7    +8.4      +5.3
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Gross natural gas production
(mln cubic meters)              1,024.7   951.3   7,214.3
to previous month, %               +7.7   -11.3        NA
to previous year, %               +12.9   +24.1     +10.6
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Gasoline (thousand tons)          131.8   158.4     935.3
to previous month, %              -16.8  -167.7        NA
to previous year, %              +300.6   +42.9     +39.7
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Fuel oil (thousand tons)          214.1   295.9   1,605.0
to previous month, %              -27.6   +12.9       н/д
to previous year, %               +50.9   +48.4     +22.9
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Gas-oil (thousand tons)           214.2   209.8   1,305.2
to previous month, %               +2.1   +15.2        NA
to previous year, %               +77.6   +93.4     +22.1
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