In the context of a new long term agreement with Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries (KPI), Air Liquide Munay Tech Gases (ALMTG) will build, own and operate a new nitrogen unit in the growing chemical basin of Karabatan, close to the Atyrau refinery.
ALMTG will invest 15 million euros in a new unit to supply up to 8,000 N§©/h nitrogen to the new 500,000 ton per year polypropylene plant under construction by KPI in the first Integrated Gas-Chemical Complex Construction Project in Atyrau region, aiming at becoming a world-class petrochemical basin. This new project, planned to be operational by the second quarter of 2021.
ALMTG, a company jointly owned by Air Liquide (75%) and KazMunayGaz, the Kazakhstan national oil & gas company (25%), has been successfully supplying for over one year hydrogen to the Pavlodar Oil and Chemistry Refinery, an affiliate of KazMunayGaz. |