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CHEMICAL AND
PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY
The chemical
and petrochemical industry is one of the largest industries of the
industrial complex. After a temporary decline in production, since 1995
the industry has acquired a stable growth, which constituted 107.2% in
1996, 119.4% in 1997 and 106% in 1998, 107% in 1999 and 101% in 2000.
The sectoral structure of the chemical and
petrochemical industry is diversified.
The leading place as regards the number of
employees and the production output belongs to the chemical fibers and
threads industry, the mining and chemical industry (production of
potassium fertilizers), the basic chemistry and the petrochemical
industry. Enterprises of these industries as well as enterprises
manufacturing products from synthetic resins and plastics constitute
Belneftekhim Chemical Concern and produce 92.6% of the total volume of
products in this sector, thus being the main exporters of chemical
products.
The petrochemical complex consists of 83
enterprises and factories. The total number of their employees is
120,000 people. The share of the Concern's enterprises in the total
volume of Belarusian industrial output exceeds 15 per cent and their
share in the republic's export is over 25 per cent, with the share in
the export to foreign countries except CIS being more than 45%. The
main types of activities of the Concern are extraction, transportation,
refining of oil and sale of petroleum products, manufacture of mineral
fertilizers, chemical fibers and threads, tyre industry, output of
products from glass fibers, production of varnishes, lacquers and
paints and plastic items. More than half of the products manufactured
by the Concern are exported. The goods are exported to more than 80
countries of the world. The annual foreign trade turnover of the
Concern constitutes over 3 billion US dollars, with the export being
1.5 billion US dollars.
Oil sector. Belarus is not included into leading
oil-producing countries, however, part of domestic market demands is
met at the expense of the country's proper crude oil resources.
Belorusneft Amalgamation, which is part of the Concern, extracts 1.8
million tons of oil a year. The Concern has 2 oil transportation
enterprises, which pump 73 million tons of Russian oil to European
countries, as well as 2 oil refineries.
Oil refineries are capable of refining up to 40
million tons of crude oil per year and produce automobile petrol,
diesel fuel, aromatic hydrocarbons, fuel for jet air-planes, lubricants,
etc.
Thirty-seven enterprises providing oil products and
320 petrol stations determine the leading stand of the Concern on the
market of automobile fuel in the Republic of Belarus.
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