President urged to construct GPP in Karachaganak

"It is necessary to complete the engineering and begin construction of a gas processing plant with capacity of five billion cubic meters per year in the Karachaganak field," N.Nazarbayev said in his annual Address to the Nation.

"In this connection I charge the Government to engineer and plan, proceed to implementation of the gas transmission system, which will ensure gasification of the central region of he country, including the capital," the President emphasized.

"It is an important work. We are a country producing oil and gas, and we must gasify our state, no matter how much it will cost for us," the Head of State said.