CONSTRUCTION OF THE MAIN GAS PIPELINE "BEINEU-SHYMKENT"
Abstract
In order to ensure the energy security of the Republic of Kazakhstan, reliable gas supply to consumers in the southern regions of Kazakhstan and diversify the export of Kazakh gas on the basis of the Agreement on cooperation in the construction and operation of the gas pipeline Kazakhstan - China between the Governments of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the People's Republic of China dated August 18, 2007, in 2011, the implementation of project "Construction of the gas pipeline Beineu - Bozoi - Shymkent". This study examines the feasibility and necessity of commissioning the Beineu-Shymkent gas pipeline (1).
The Beineu-Bozoi-Shymkent gas pipeline, the largest pipeline project in the history of independent Kazakhstan, is designed to play an important role in improving the energy security of the state. The design and construction of the Beineu-Shymkent gas pipeline is due to a number of reasons, the most important of which are:
- transportation of natural gas from the western regions of Kazakhstan to the southern regions of the Republic - Kyzylorda, South Kazakhstan, Zhambyl, Almaty regions and Almaty city in order to meet their needs for natural gas through the use of a substitution scheme for transit gas transported through the CAC gas pipeline system and its supply to the projected gas pipeline "Beineu-Shymkent";
- ensuring the possibility (if necessary) of supplying part of the gas volumes from the resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan for export to the People's Republic of China by connecting the Beineu-Shymkent gas pipeline to the projected Kazakhstan-China gas pipeline in the area of the projected Kereit compressor station;
- improving the reliability of gas supply to the southern regions of Kazakhstan;
- strengthening the economic security of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The route of the projected gas pipeline "Beyneu - Shymkent" will pass through the territory of four regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan: Mangistau, Aktobe, Kyzylorda and South Kazakhstan. The starting point of the projected gas pipeline is the place of its proposed tie-in into the existing system of main gas pipelines "Central Asia Center" - 4 and the SAC-4 looping.
The length of the projected gas pipeline "Beyneu - Shymkent" will be -1487 km, at the same time along the route of the gas pipeline it is planned to install compressor stations in the amount of 5 units. This study provides valuable information about the construction of the largest pipeline project in the history of independent Kazakhstan, which is designed to play an important role in improving the energy security of the state. The construction of the Beineu-Shymkent gas pipeline is a strategically important facility (2).
