News 2013
August 2013Sinopec Engineering
The Acting Board Chairman of JSC Samruk-Kazyna Daniyar Berlibayev reported at the meeting, devoted to activity results of the subsidiary companies of JSC KazMunayGas for the first half of the year that for a number of reasons the construction project of the plant for production of aromatics would not start in the current year.
“As for the construction of the plant for aromatics production, we had to introduce this project in December of the current year. Today there are some problems, and we are not able to introduce it in December”, – he told. According to Berlibayev, the contracting organization Sinopec Engineering addressed the Government with a request to prolong the project implementation term up to 2014.
“The contract organization had no work experience with local standards and that took some time. Also the reasons of delay are that for a long time it was not allowed to involve foreign labour, and the equipment was not delivered in time from China”, – the Acting Head of the Company said. Also he assured that penalties would be applied against the unfair logistic company from China. In turn the Board Chairman of JSC Samruk-Kazyna Umirzak Shukeyevnoted that “the Chinese companies participate in many Kazakhstani projects, and they disrupt terms everywhere, therefore it is necessary to apply a strict approach.
All penaltiesprovided by the contract should be applied”. Let us remember that the plant for aromatic hydrocarbons production, which costs $1,4 billion, is constructed on the base of Atyrau Refinery. The relevant contract between LLP Atyrau Refinery and Sinopec Engineering was signed in 2009. The project will allow to produce 133 thousand tons of benzene and 496 thousand tons of paraxylol per year and bring let-out gasoline quality to Euro-4 standard level.