ASTANA, Kazakhstan, September 6. Dismantling work followed by installation of new equipment for further expansion at the Aktau bitumen plant CASPI BITUM in the Mangystau region of Kazakhstan will begin in November-December 2024, Trend reports.
This was stated during the visit of the Chairman of the Board of KazMunayGas (KMG, Kazakhstan's national oil and gas company), Askhat Khassenov, to the plant.
Khassenov stressed the importance of completing the work before the start of the 2025 road construction season.
At present, the plant supplies bitumen to road construction companies according to requests and contracts.
Over the first 8 months of 2024, the CASPI BITUM processed about 514,000 tons of oil and produced over 192,000 tons of road bitumen.
Meanwhile, the volumes of raw material processing at CASPI BITUM at the end of 2023 amounted to 853,484 tons, or 100.5 percent of the plan. Over the past year, 358,155 tons of road bitumen were produced (100.8 percent of the plan).
The leaders in consumption of road bitumen produced at the plant in 2023 are Almaty Region with 60,913 tons (17 percent), Mangystau Region with 44,025 tons (12 percent), and Jambyl Region with 39,404 tons (11 percent) of the total shipment volume.
Moreover, in October 2023, a project to increase the oil refining capacity of CASPI BITUM to 1.5 million tons per year was included in the list of investment projects of KazMunayGas (a national oil and gas company). Thanks to the modernization of the existing crude oil primary processing unit, it is planned to increase the production of road bitumen at the enterprise from the current 500,000 to 750,000 tons per year.
