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Kazakhstan to possibly stop gas exports - minister

Oil&Gas Materials 25 March 2022 15:02 (UTC +04:00)
Kazakhstan to possibly stop gas exports - minister
Nargiz Sadikhova
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BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 25. Kazakhstan will have to stop gas exports in 2024, in order to meet its needs, Kazakhstani Energy Minister Bulat Aqchulaqov stated in his speech at the Central Communications Service (CCS), Trend reports via CCS.

Two options are being considered for the gasification project for the north and east, he said.

According to the first, Kazakhstan will get gas from Russia. The second option is to carry gas through the continuation of the SaryArka pipeline and build several new gas pipelines.

It is cheaper with the option from Russia. It is more reliable in terms of uninterrupted supplies because there is a lot of gas in the Russian Federation. It can be supplied here in volumes that are insignificant for them. We are talking from four to seven billion cubic meters a year from the Russian Federation - the gas that can come here, Aqchulaqov said.

It will be more expensive to haul your own gas because you will have to build a gas pipeline system across half the country, branched out, moreover, our territories are large, there are not so many consumers, if we take Kostanay, Petropavlovsk, Pavlodar, Ust-Kamenogorsk, you will have to pull on each of them," the Energy Minister noted.

Now in Kazakhstan, there is a large consumption of gas within the country in already gasified regions and industrial enterprises, the Ministry of Energy also added.

According to the minister, this leads to the fact that most likely in 2024 Kazakhstan will have to abandon gas exports in order to meet its needs.

"Therefore, at the first stage, I think, there will be nothing terrible in this if gasification is done at the expense of Russian gas if we find such significant volumes of gas reserves, we will think further," Aqchulaqov explained.

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