Kazakhstan to raise natural gas output 280 % by 2020
Feb 26, 2008 01:00 AM
Kazakhstan intends to increase natural gas production from 29.6 bn cm in 2007 to 114 bn cm in 2020, the president of
national oil and gas company KazMunaiGaz said.
"Natural gas production is expected to grow from 29.6 bn cm in 2007 to 114 bn cm in 2020," Uzakbai Karabalin told a
Cabinet meeting.
He said most of the increase would be secured by putting new gas fields on stream in the west of the republic, as
well as utilizing "the resources of the Kazakh and Turkmen sectors in the Caspian shelf."
The company head said gas consumption in Kazakhstan is expected to grow from 13.3 bn cm in 2007 to 18.7 bn in 2020.
