IN NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN TO BE BUILT oil refinery
Oil refinery plant worth $ 700 million to be built in the north of Afghanistan, the Amu Darya basin.
As the head of the Agency for Afghanistan Investment Support (AISA) Vafiulla Iftikhar, the plant will treat up to 60,000 barrels of oil per day.
The project will be financed by the Afghan-American oil company. Presumably, the plant will allow Afghanistan to become independent from the support of other countries in this field. In addition, thanks to the project 36,000 people will be able to get a job, was quoted as saying `Bakhtar News Agency`.
It is planned that the plant will be commissioned by 2016. After the construction of the plant will be able to abandon Afghanistan, Tajikistan services to refineries, added a senior official.
