THE CURRENT STATE TRENDS OF PRODUCTION AND USE OF PETROLEUM BITUMEN ABROAD AND IN THE KAZAKHSTAN

Abstract

The world production of petroleum bitumen for road construction is considered, where residual petroleum road bitumen is mainly used, from which more than 80% of roads are built in the West. The absolute leaders of the bitumen market are the USA, Canada and China. In terms of development of oil bitumen production potential, Russia ranks second among the developed countries of the world after the United States, but at the same time lags behind the US level by 3 times, but is ahead of Canada, which ranks third and has 7.0% of global production capacity. The leading positions in the Russian bitumen market are occupied by companies Gazprom Neft, Rosneft, and Lukoil. They account for almost 80% of the total bitumen production in the Russian Federation. The needs of the domestic bitumen market in the Republic of Kazakhstan are met by four large producers of road bitumen, with a total capacity of 1.2 million tons per year. Data on the development of the bitumen industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 5 years are analyzed and the dynamics of the volume of the bitumen market in Kazakhstan is shown. The volume of bitumen production in the Republic of Kazakhstan has doubled since 2015.