ASTANA, Kazakhstan, November 30. A roadmap has been signed in Kazakhstan to resolve priority issues for the project to expand the production capacity of the Shymkent Oil Refinery, KazMunayGas JSC (Kazakhstan's national oil and gas company) told Trend.
The road map was signed between the President of Shymkent Oil Refinery, Yerbolat Kozhabayev, and the head of the executive power of Shymkent Gabit Syzdykbekov. Vice Minister of Energy Yerlan Akkenzhenov was also present at the signing.
Thus, according to the Roadmap, the Shymkent oil refinery's production capacity will be doubled to 12 million tons.
The Shymkent Oil Refinery, which was opened in 1985 in the city of Shymkent, is Kazakhstan's newest. The plant accounts for 30 percent of the entire current volume of petroleum products generated by Kazakhstan's three refineries.
Shymkent Oil Refinery finished a large-scale renovation and redevelopment project in 2018.
As a result, the quality of the produced fuel was raised to K-5 standards, the level of environmental safety was raised, and the plant's design capacity was expanded to 6 million tons per year.
