Nexus has suspended the construction of a $2.2 billion refinery designed to run on Russian and Kazakh oil, and opted instead to upgrade its existing refineries, a senior Uzbek energy official said on Friday. The planned Nexus refinery was supposed to produce more than 3.7 million tonnes of gasoline, more than 700,000 tonnes of jet fuel and about 300,000 tonnes of other oil products annually. "A decision has been made to prioritise the upgrade of existing refineries, the Bukhara and Fergana ones," Hustniddin Turaev, deputy director of Neftegazinvest, a subsidiary of state energy firm Uzbekneftegaz, told reporters
