Deadline for Kashagan GPP construction completion pushed to end 2026A gas processing plant with a capacity of 1 billion cubic meters of gas per year at the Kashagan field is planned to be completed and commissioned by the end of 2026, the press service of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Energy said." According to the approved schedule, the completion of construction and commissioning of the GPP are scheduled for the end of 2026. Overall, work is progressing according to plan, but certain challenges have arisen with a number of technological facilities. In this regard, the general contractor has developed a plan to optimize timelines, which is already being implemented,” the ministry said in the statement said following a technical meeting involving the Ministry of Energy, the national company QazaqGaz, and the general contractor in Atyrau.To date, around 1,300 specialists are working at the construction site, 900 of whom are directly involved in technological facilities."The general contractor has developed a plan to accelerate the work... Commissioning is expected by the end of 2026,"Director of the Gas Industry Department at the Ministry of Energy Bakhytzhan Taubayev is quoted as saying in the press release.In August 2024, Berik Abishev, acting head of GPC Investment LLP (the company implementing the GPP construction project), stated that the Kashagan GPP would be launched in mid-2026. Initially, the plant was planned for completion in 2025.In January 2025, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev criticized the "unsatisfactory" progress of the GPP construction at Kashagan and in Zhanaozen, demanding that the projects be completed on schedule.The implementation of this project will, among other things, help supply natural gas to regions of Kazakhstan. (ICE ALMATY)

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