{"id":19408,"date":"2026-08-10T07:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/balkh-opens-30-million-dollar-oil-refinery\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T07:11:20","slug":"balkh-opens-30-million-dollar-oil-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/10\/balkh-opens-30-million-dollar-oil-refinery\/","title":{"rendered":"New $30 Million Oil Refinery Begins Operations in Balkh Province"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local officials in Balkh Province have announced the construction and commencement of operations at an oil refinery built with an investment of $30 million. According to officials, this facility has the capacity to refine 600 tons of crude oil every 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The refinery&#8217;s management stated that crude oil extracted from the Zemradsi, Angot, and Qashqari mines is processed at this plant and turned into diesel, petrol, and mazut after refining.<\/p>\n<p>Technical engineers of the complex said the refinery was established to make effective use of the country&#8217;s natural resources and to meet domestic fuel needs. This development comes as Afghanistan faces significant energy challenges and heavy dependence on imported petroleum products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new $30 million oil refinery in Balkh, Afghanistan, starts operations, refining 600 tons of crude daily to reduce energy import dependence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}