China To Build New Gas Processing Plant At Kashagan

cover Photo: QazaqGaz

Kazakhstan has launched a project to build a second gas processing plant at Kashagan, Orda.kz reports.

The plant will have a capacity of 2.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year. The contractor is a consortium of Chinese companies CNCE6 and China Wuhuan.

A project meeting was chaired by Energy Minister Yerlan Akkenzhenov. It was attended by representatives of QazaqGaz, PSA, NCOC shareholders and other organizations involved in the construction.

By government decree, China National Chemical Engineering Sixth Construction Company Kazakhstan Branch and China Wuhuan Engineering Corporation Ltd. were designated as the project’s EPC contractor.

According to QazaqGaz, the project has already entered the practical implementation stage. Another gas processing plant is being built at Kashagan in parallel, with a capacity of one billion cubic meters of gas per year. Its main contractors are KCG LLP and Integra Construction KZ LLP.

The energy minister instructed the project participants to coordinate their work and meet construction deadlines. QazaqGaz must report monthly to the Ministry of Energy on the project’s progress, measures taken and any problems that arise.

Original author: Alexander Zhdanov

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