KazTransOil updates on OPS "Aman" construction

29.09.20 14:08
/KASE, September 29, 2020/ – KazTransOil (Nur-Sultan), whose shares are officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided KASE with the following press release of September 29, 2020: quote General Director of "KazTransOil" JSC Dimash Dossanov has reviewed progress of construction of "Aman" Oil Pumping Station, implemented in the framework of the project "First stage of the reverse section of the "Kenkiyak-Atyrau" Oil Pipeline capacity to 6 million tons per year". According to Amir Gali, Deputy General Director for production of "MunayTas" LLP, the installation of technological pipelines and equipment is planned to be completed by the end of September, then hydraulic tests of technological pipelines will be carried out. From October 1, work will begin on the installation of centrifugal pumps under the supervision of a representative of the manufacturer plant Ruhrpumpen (Germany). Additional mobilization of human resources will be made to perform these works. Taking into account the forecasts of the beginning of the second wave of coronavirus infection in Kazakhstan, sanitary and epidemiological measures have been strengthened on the territory of the construction site. All employees are provided with medical masks and sanitizers. A quarantine camp has been built, which will be used as part of a shift camp to accommodate mobilized personnel. At the same time, several separate blocks are planned to be used as isolation rooms in case of detection of infected workers, as well as for passing the quarantine period of newly mobilized personnel. "Kenkiyak-Atyrau" Oil Pipeline Reverse Project is part of the Kazakhstan-China project. As part of the Kazakhstan-China Project, Oil Pipeline "Kenkiyak-Atyrau" with a length of 448.85 km, Oil Pipeline "Atasu-Alashankou" with a length of 965.10 km and the "Kenkiyak-Kumkol" Oil Pipeline with a length of 794.2 km were built. Participants of the Kazakhstan-China Project are "KazTransOil" JSC, "MunayTas" LLP (51% of the shares belong to "KazTransOil" JSC) and "Kazakhstan-China Pipeline" LLP (50% of the shares belong to "KazTransOil" JSC), each of which is the owner of the corresponding section of the Kazakhstan- China Oil Pipeline. unquote The full press release is available on KASE website: - https://kase.kz/files/emitters/KZTO/kzto_reliz_290920_kz.pdf – in Kazakh; - https://kase.kz/files/emitters/KZTO/kzto_reliz_290920_1.pdf – in Russian; - https://kase.kz/files/emitters/KZTO/kzto_reliz_290920_eng_1.pdf – in English. [2020-09-29]