Production of oil, gas and oil products in Kazakhstan

/REUTERS, Almaty, July 15, 03/ - Production of oil with gas condensate in Kazakhstan in the first half-year of 2003 grew by 12.1% in comparison with similar period of 2002, and equaled to 25.017 m tons, informed the Statistics Agency of Kazakhstan. In January-June of 2002 production of oil and gas condensate was equal to 22.317 m. tons, statistics agency informs. Production of oil, gas and oil products in Kazakhstan: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Production of oil and June May Jan-June oil products 2003 2003 2003 --------------------------------------------- ----- ----- -------- OIL (m tons) 3.753 3.815 22,062.0 to previous month, % -1.6 +4.9 - to previous year, % +11.9 +15.4 +11.3 --------------------------------------------- ----- ----- -------- GAS CONDENSATE (thousand tons) 440.5 479.5 2,954.7 to previous month, % -8.1 -4.6 - to previous year, % -1.6 +14.1 +18.6 --------------------------------------------- ----- ----- -------- Gross NATURAL GAS production (m cubic meters) 526.1 549.6 3,323.5 to previous month, % -4.3 -2.1 - to previous year, % -0.7 +8.8 +10.6 --------------------------------------------- ----- ----- -------- GASOLINE (thousand tons) 136.0 185.7 929.4 to previous month, % -26.8 -7.8 - to previous year, % +22.0 +7.7 +10.6 --------------------------------------------- ----- ----- -------- FUEL OIL (thousand tons) 193.6 283.3 1,420.5 to previous month, % -31.7 +3.1 - to previous year, % -3.2 +80.6 +29.3 --------------------------------------------- ----- ----- -------- MAZUT (thousand tons) 215.9 341.6 1,621.0 to previous month, % -36.8 +7.6 - to previous year, % -13.4 +83.8 +21.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------- [2003-07-15]