Atyrau to launch $6.3 bln gas and chemical complex

YRAU. November 9. KAZINFORM /Andrei Sokolov/ Kazakhstan's first integrated gas and chemical complex, which is under construction about 30 kilometers away from Atyrau, will be commissioned in 2016. Bergey Ryskaliyev, Akim (Governor) of Atyrau region, told Kazinform.

According to him, the complex has entered into a list of projects constructed under the State Program of Forced Industrial Innovative Development. The project cost is USD 6.3 billion. The complex is designed to produce annually 800,000 tons of polyethylene and 450,000 tons of polypropylene.