ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 24. Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Alikhan Smailov, in teleconference mode, has launched the supply of gas through the second string of the Beyneu-Zhanaozen main gas pipeline with a length of 308 km in the Mangistau region, Trend reports.
The construction of this gas pipeline was carried out within the framework of the Comprehensive Plan for the Social and Economic Development of the Region for 2021–2025.
Currently, the Mangistau region has the highest consumption of natural gas in Kazakhstan. In particular, last year the region accounted for 2.8 billion cubic meters, which is 19 percent of the total demand of the republic’s domestic market.
The launch of the second string of the Beyneu-Zhanaozen main gas pipeline will ensure stable gas supply to populated areas, large industrial facilities, as well as the main energy enterprise of the Mangistau region, MAEK LLP, which generates thermal and electrical energy.
According to the Prime Minister, the throughput capacity of the second string of the Beyneu-Zhanaozen gas pipeline is 5.8 billion cubic meters per year. Previously, the Okarem-Beyneu gas pipeline along this route ensured the pumping of just over 3 billion cubic meters. Now, the total throughput capacity of the two gas pipelines will reach about 9 billion cubic meters per year, which fully covers the needs of the region.
In turn, the chairman of the board of the Kazakh national company QazaqGaz, Sanzhar Zharkeshov, noted that about 180 billion tenge (about $379.6 million) were invested in the project for the construction of the new Beyneu-Zhanaozen gas pipeline.
At the same time, work on the overhaul of three sections of the large Zhanaozen-Zhetybay-Aktau gas pipeline was completed.
