ASTANA, Kazakhstan, June 1. The Ministry of
Energy of Kazakhstan has launched a targeted initiative to
modernize the national coal industry by shifting resources toward
chemical processing and downstream manufacturing, Trend reports via the
ministry.
According to the ministry, six distinct industrial projects are
at various stages of implementation and assessment to utilize the
country's extensive coal reserves for synthetic fuel and
metallurgical inputs.
In the construction phase, a plant with an annual capacity of
one million tons of metallurgical coke is currently being built in
the Karaganda region, a project expected to create 500 permanent
jobs. Additionally, two facilities designed to produce synthetic
diesel fuel from coal are under development in the Pavlodar and
Karaganda regions, with each plant carrying a rated output capacity
of 100,000 tons per year.
Three secondary projects remain in the preliminary planning and
site-selection stages. These include a coke-chemical downstream
facility in the Karaganda region for processing coal tar,
extracting benzene, and purifying coke-oven gas; an agrochemical
plant in the Abay region for the production of ammonia and urea;
and a specialized facility to convert raw coal into synthetic gas,
which is currently undergoing location assessments.
