Project of the new Kazakhstan oil pipeline Kumkol-Aralsk-Kenkiyak is on the stage of technical and economic grounds

/Kazakhstan today, December 25, 02/ - Project of the new Kazakhstan oil pipeline Kumkol-Aralsk-Kenkiyak is on the stage of technical and economic grounds. About this today, December 24 at the press-conference in Almaty was informed by deputy general director of KazTransOil CJSC Sabr Yesimbekov. In Yesinbekov's opinion "realization of the new project Kumkol-Aralsk- Kenkiyak, together with setting in exploitation oil pipeline Kenkiyak-Atyrau will allow to technologically integrate all three oil pipeline systems into the single one, and improve by it possibilities on loading of domestic PR with Kazakhstan oil, and also improve export potential of Kazakhstan oil producing companies". Approximate term of setting in exploitation Kumkol-Aralsk-Kenkiyak is the end of 2004. The existing oil transportation infrastructure of Kazakhstan and Russian allows to transport Russian oil through oil pipeline Omsk-Pavlodar-Shymkent bulk-oil terminal Atasu in Karaganda oblast. According to Yesimbekov's information "in presence of guaranteed supplies of Russian oil by this scheme, Kazakhstan, China and interested oil producing companies may jointly build oil pipeline at the part Atasu-Alashankou (Kazakhstan-Chinese border), which afterwards will be integrated into the system of oil pipeline West Kazakhstan - China". Building of this oil pipeline with the capacity of up to 20 m tons a year is to be made in three stages. First stage - Kenkiyak - Atyrau is already being realized, the second - Kumkol-Aralsk-Kenkiyak is on the stage of technical and economic grounds, the third - from Atasu to Alashankou, with simultaneous reconstruction of Karakoin-Barsengir-Atasu. Approximate term of the project realization is 2007. [2002-12-25]