Article: KAZAKHSTAN - The Domestic Market.

The local energy market remains regulated, although the government has privatised important parts of the electric power sector. Consumption of both oil and coal has declined steadily since 1991 as the country has gone through a period of economic and industrial turmoil following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Crude oil refined for domestic consumption in 2006 would average about 10m t/y (200,000 b/d), up from 7.4m t/y (148,000 b/d) in 2000. This compared with about 12m t/y in 1995, and 20.3m t/y (407,000 b/d) in 1991.

Gas consumption kept rising between 1985 and 1992, but declined thereafter to reach 6.4m t/yoe (7.1 BCM/y) in 1997. It began to rise in 2000 to ...

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