ASTANA, Kazakhstan, September 15. Chairman of the Board of KazMunayGas (KMG), Askhat Khassenov, visited the Atyrau Oil Refinery, where he inspected preparations for the upcoming planned preventive maintenance (PPM) works, which will begin on October 1 and continue until October 25 of this year, Trend reports, citing KazMunayGas.
As part of the PPM, mandatory technical inspections and examinations are planned for equipment (1,174 units of vessels and apparatus, 46 furnaces, and 1,458 units of technological pipelines). In addition, more than 316 tons of catalyst will be replaced on various installations.
“The key and most complex operation will be the replacement of the conical bottoms of the delayed coking unit reactors, for which the plant is installing two unique cranes with a lifting capacity of 750 tons each. During the PPM, an innovative predictive diagnostics system will also be installed on the reactors to improve equipment reliability in the future,” the statement reads.
A total of 1,880 professionals and 62 units of specialized
apparatus will be engaged in the operation.
In order to uphold equilibrium within the domestic hydrocarbon
marketplace and facilitate the logistics of petroleum derivatives
throughout the PPM phase, the facility is implementing
comprehensive strategies to cultivate adequate inventories of
marketable commodities.
In the first eight months of 2025, the volume of light petroleum products reached a record level of 77.5 percent, with a refining depth of 88.6 percent. Plans for the production of diesel fuel (+15 percent) and aviation fuel (+13 percent) were exceeded. This allowed the enterprise to transfer 129 billion tenge (approximately $232 million) to the budget, which is 24 billion tenge (about $43 million) more than the planned figure.
KazMunayGas (KMG) operates as Kazakhstan's sovereign entity in the oil and gas sector, embodying a comprehensive, vertically integrated model that encompasses the full spectrum of the hydrocarbon value chain, including exploration, extraction, logistics, refining, and ancillary services. Founded in 2002, it serves as the governmental entity overseeing the national oil and gas landscape, orchestrating a diverse portfolio of assets and subsidiaries spanning the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors of the industry.
