From oil and natural gas pipelines to road and rail connections, the “Samruk-Kasenna†state sovereignty ** (hereinafter referred to as “SK**â€) with Kazakhstan’s “SASAC†status was announced in Beijing yesterday. Cooperation with large state-owned enterprises in China.
SK** has jurisdiction over large-scale state-owned enterprises and major financial institutions in Kazakhstan. Its total assets account for one quarter of Kazakhstan's GDP.
As SK**, also the head of Kazakhstan's state-owned economy, SK EK President Keilat Krumbetov said in Beijing yesterday that China and Kazakhstan cooperate in various fields such as energy and infrastructure construction. All of them are basically connected with the companies of this company and hope to strengthen cooperation with China in various fields in the future.
According to a reporter from the "First Financial Daily", Krumbedov's visit to China had talks with relevant personnel from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Energy Bureau and the Ministry of Commerce.
Together to complete the natural gas pipeline
At present, Sino-Kazakhstan cooperation, the oil and natural gas pipelines are the most important cooperative projects, among which the China-Kazakhstan Natural Gas Pipeline (KCGP) is one of the lifebloods of China's connection to natural gas in Central Asia.
Among them, the first phase of the project was completed and put into production in December 2009. The second phase of the project is Kazakhstan's domestic pipeline, which spans West Kazakhstan and South Kazakhstan, referred to as the "Two Kazakhstan" natural gas pipeline. In October 2009, China and Kazakhstan decided to implement the second phase of the Sino-Kazakhstan gas pipeline project.
However, at the middle of this year, Nazarov, executive manager of the Natural Gas Project of Kazakh National Oil and Natural Gas Company under SK**, said that the second phase of the Sino-Kazakh gas pipeline, which has received much attention, cannot be scheduled due to the failure of Kazakhstan’s funds. start up.
Krumbetov brought good news yesterday. He said that the construction project for the "Two Kazakhstan" natural gas pipeline will start at the end of this year.
He said that according to the agreement signed last year between China and Kazakhstan, China Export-Import Bank and the National Development Bank provided Kazakhstan with two batches worth US$10 billion. Among them, China Exim Bank injected capital into Kazakh National Oil and Gas Corporation. Billion US dollars was used to purchase part of the shares of Kazakhstan's Mangis set of oil and gas companies, and the other major shareholder of the company is PetroChina. In the US, US$2 billion will be invested in the construction of the “Two Kazakhstan†natural gas pipeline.
* Cooperation will exceed oil
In terms of new energy, in the fall of 2009, SK** signed a series of cooperation agreements with China. This includes cooperation agreements with China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group on wind energy, solar energy and hydro energy. At present, China and Kazakhstan are studying the feasibility of building a wind power station in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
As for the cooperation in the field of nuclear energy, Klimbedov emphasized at yesterday’s press conference that China’s new round of nuclear power plant construction will generate huge demand for nuclear fuel, and Kazakhstan is the world’s largest natural* producer, China and Kazakhstan. The country’s future cooperation in nuclear fuel is even greater than the current cooperation in the oil and gas field.
He emphasized that the cooperation in the field of nuclear fuel belongs to the strategic cooperation between China and Kazakhstan. It belongs to the cooperation between the two governments and hopes to expand cooperation in this area.
According to news from the news agency of the Russian News Agency, Kazakhstan’s state-owned nuclear power company, Kazakhstan National Atomic Energy Industry Corporation, plans to end the procedure for obtaining a permit in December 2010 to export fuel pellets to China. The news was revealed by Yuri Rusin, director of the fuels laboratory at the Central Scientific Research Laboratory of the company's "Ulbinski Metallurgical Plant".