Marketing and transportation

Business <> Marketing and Transportation

Marketing and Transportation (M&T) business unit is the link in the Company’s business structure between the upstream and the downstream unit.

The M&T business strategy is aimed at maximizing profits from crude oil and refined products turnover transactions by way of increasing crude export, import, processing and refined product sales in the most economically beneficial directions. For the purpose of implementing its business strategy M&T deals with crude oil transportation via trunk oil pipelines of JSC KazTransOil, Kazakhstan-China Pipeline, and oil products shipment from different loading terminals and oil bases by rail and motor transport.

M&T ensures crude oil delivery to other partners for refining and sells refined oil products such as gasoline, diesel, fuel oil, jet fuel, vacuum gasoil and liquefied gas both on the domestic market and export markets.

M&T consists of the following key structural subdivisions, each being responsible for a definite area of activity related to crude oil and oil products transportation and sales:

Crude Oil Marketing – crude oil purchase and sales for export, crude import, sales at the domestic and international market.

Oil Products Marketing – oil products purchase and sales to the domestic market and for export; interaction with subsidiaries and tollers on processing services agreements; fulfillment of the Company’s social commitments with regard to refined products shipment plans to different regions of Kazakhstan; interaction with authorized central and regional state authorities , oblast administrations and operators on the matters of refined products distribution and domestic sales.

Logistics and Supply – planning, organization and coordination of crude oil delivery coordination via the systems of JSC KazTransOil, Kazakhstan-China Pipeline (KCP) and KAM pipeline, crude and refined product transportation from all of the Company’s loading terminals for export and to Kazakhstan’s domestic market, commodity-transportation and forwarding service management, rolling stock management, planning and coordination of crude supply to other refinery for refining.

Asset Management – M&T controlled assets management and optimization; control over the technical condition, timely repair and operation of oil product acceptance, storage and sales facilities and assets upgrade.

Market Development and Competition – crude oil and oil products market analysis and information support for all Company’s subdivisions, marketing researches on existing and new products and market directions.