Kazakhstan plans to provide up to 62.6% of population with piped gas in 2025

Works are ongoing to build major gas processing plants at Kashagan with capacities of 1bn m3 and 2.5bn m3 as well as another one with a capacity of 0.9bn m3 in Zhanaozen town. Investments in Kazakhstan’s gas sector are to exceed 100 billion tenge in 2025, the country’s Energy Minister Almasadam Satkaliyev said during a government meeting on Tuesday.

Barkhannaya gas field with nearly 1.5bn m3 of recoverable oil reserves is set to be commissioned this year.

This year, it is planned to provide up to 62.6% of the population with piped gas, as 65.9 billion tenge was allocated by the decision of the Republican Budget Commission to proceed with 45 projects in 2025, said Satkaliyev.

Besides, construction of an automatic gas distribution station Finskaya-120 and the main gas pipeline branch Redut- gas distribution station Finskaya-120 nears completion in Atyrau region.

66 settlements in Zhetysu region with 124,000 inhabitants are to be provided with natural gas after the main gas pipeline Taldykorgan-Usharal is completed this year.

In April this year, it’s planned to commence works to construct the second line of the main pipeline Beineu-Bozoi-Shymkent, ensuring supply of gas to the center and south of the country as well as begin supplying gas to the north.

As earlier reported, in 2025, Kazakhstan plans to produce 96.2 million tons of oil and gas condensate, which is 9.7% more than the previous year.