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Kazakh bitumen plant starts exports

Oil&Gas Materials 27 January 2017 21:21 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Jan. 27

By Elena Kosolapova – Trend:

Kazakh bitumen plant Caspi Bitum has sent the first batch of bitumen for export, KMG Refining and Marketing said in a message.

As much as 650 tons of the bitumen produced at the plant was sent to Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

The product is suitable for building almost all road-types as well as for almost all climatic zones.

Caspi Bitum, built in 2013, is a joint venture of KMG Refining and Marketing and CITIC Kazakhstan.

The plant produces two types of bitumen: viscous petroleum bitumen and modified petroleum bitumen for roads and has capacity to process up to 1 million tons of oil per year.

In 2016, the plant processed 623,500 tons of oil and produced 110,900 tons of road bitumen.

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