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Article: KAZAKHSTAN - Atyrau Refinery
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- APS Review Downstream Trends
- Article date:
- July 27, 1998
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This refinery is located in Atyrau province, where oil has been produced since 1911. Towards the end of World War II, the Soviets built the Atyrau refinery on the banks of the Ural River, close to the Caspian Sea. The refinery has a capacity of 104,000 b/d. It is yet to be sold to the private sector, although it has been on the list of ventures to be privatised for some time. (It was
"sold" to a virtually unknown company called Essex Refinery, which purchased a 53% share sometime in early 1997, but by April 1997 the sale was revoked by the government).
Currently, this refinery is controlled by KazakhOil, which was created in March 1997 as part of a massive ...