BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 7.
Construction of a new gas processing plant in Zhanaozen,
Kazakhstan's Mangystau region, is progressing, with overall actual
progress in long-lead equipment manufacturing reaching 60.8%,
KazMunayGas said.


KazMunayGas CEO Askhat Khassenov visited the
construction site during a working trip to the Mangystau
region.


The project is being implemented under an instruction
from President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. The plant will have an annual
processing capacity of 900 million cubic meters of natural and
associated gas. It will produce marketable gas, liquefied petroleum
gas (LPG) and pentane-hexane fraction, providing additional gas
supplies to households and industrial enterprises in the Mangystau
region.


Of 240 long-lead equipment items, 133 have been
completed and 107 remain in production, the company said.







According to KMG, marine shipments of the modules
began on August 16, 2026. Three vessels carrying equipment are
currently en route to Kazakhstan, and a fourth is preparing to
leave a port in China. Further shipments will be carried out in
stages according to the project schedule. The plant is being built
using a modular approach, with major technological modules
manufactured at plants and delivered to the site for assembly.


On the construction site, installation has begun on
spherical tanks for storing a broad fraction of light hydrocarbons
(natural gas liquids, NGL), with a capacity of 500 cubic meters,
and for LPG, with a capacity of 2,000 cubic meters. Foundations for
a 6,000-cubic-meter fire water reserve tank and for
1,000-cubic-meter storage tanks for LPG, NGL and pentane-hexane
fraction had been completed earlier. The external power supply
facility has also been completed, with preparations underway for
commissioning and testing.


Earthworks and foundation construction for the main
production facilities and general plant infrastructure are
continuing, and the number of resources involved in construction
and installation is being increased in stages. The project requires
about 63,000 cubic meters of concrete work, of which 15,700 cubic
meters had been completed as of early October.