fact. Kazakhstan is reducing its dependence on MTBE imports - what else is used to dilute gasoline? remark. The volume of product imports to Israel in the months of January - August this year. decreased to 360 tons from 1.5 thousand tons in the corresponding period in 2025. At the same time, in January-August 2026, the export of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) from Kazakhstan amounted to 4.7 thousand tons. All of this volume was supplied by one of two manufacturers - Shimkent Chemicals (the other is Pavloder Neftachim Ltd.). Each of them supplies the additive to a local refinery. MTBE is used as an additive to motor gasoline that increases the octane number. What else is added to gasoline to increase the volume or increase the octane number of the cheap "base" to the commercial AI-92 or AI-95? Method Vasily Alibayevich the hero of the movie "Gentlemen of Fortune" ingeniously diluted gasoline with serious urine. There is always some water in the fuel. One source is added ethanol. If the octane number is "raised" with alcohol, it binds moisture, and the alcohol-water mixture falls to the bottom of the tank in the form of a dense emulsion. "Periamgon" - naphtha, a product of the primary distillation of oil. Octane number 50-65. Significantly cheaper than commercial gasoline and is not subject to tax if it is packaged under the guise of technological solvents. Gasoline is a condensed gas byproduct of natural gas production. Cheap, mixes easily with gasoline. It has low octane and is very unstable, leading to vapor lock in the fuel system in the summer or detonation under load. Heating oil and kerosene add 3-7%. The gasoline becomes darker and oilier. The fuel does not burn completely, leaving carbon deposits on the valves and washing the oil film from the cylinder walls. What increases the octane number If the base is diluted with straight running or thickening, the octane number drops below the allowable level. To compensate, surrogate additives are illegally introduced: compounds containing iron, monomethylaniline, aromatic solvents or technical alcohol.

fact. Kazakhstan is reducing its dependence on MTBE imports - what else is used to dilute gasoline? remark. The volume of product imports to Israel in the months of January - August this year. decreased to 360 tons from 1.5 thousand tons in the corresponding period in 2025. At the same time, in January-August 2026, the export of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) from Kazakhstan amounted to 4.7 thousand tons. All of this volume was supplied by one of two manufacturers - Shimkent Chemicals (the other is Pavloder Neftachim Ltd.). Each of them supplies the additive to a local refinery. MTBE is used as an additive to motor gasoline that increases the octane number. What else is added to gasoline to increase the volume or increase the octane number of the cheap "base" to the commercial AI-92 or AI-95? Method Vasily Alibayevich the hero of the movie "Gentlemen of Fortune" ingeniously diluted gasoline with serious urine. There is always some water in the fuel. One source is added ethanol. If the octane number is "raised" with alcohol, it binds moisture, and the alcohol-water mixture falls to the bottom of the tank in the form of a dense emulsion. "Periamgon" - naphtha, a product of the primary distillation of oil. Octane number 50-65. Significantly cheaper than commercial gasoline and is not subject to tax if it is packaged under the guise of technological solvents. Gasoline is a condensed gas byproduct of natural gas production. Cheap, mixes easily with gasoline. It has low octane and is very unstable, leading to vapor lock in the fuel system in the summer or detonation under load. Heating oil and kerosene add 3-7%. The gasoline becomes darker and oilier. The fuel does not burn completely, leaving carbon deposits on the valves and washing the oil film from the cylinder walls. What increases the octane number If the base is diluted with straight running or thickening, the octane number drops below the allowable level. To compensate, surrogate additives are illegally introduced: compounds containing iron, monomethylaniline, aromatic solvents or technical alcohol.