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Home > Country studies and coal markets > Prospects for coal and clean coal technologies in Kazakhstan, CCC/192 

Prospects for coal and clean coal technologies in Kazakhstan, CCC/192

Author(s): Morel Oprisan

Price: £255.00

Ref: CCC/192 ISBN: 978-92-9029-512-9 Published Date: 01/12/2011

No. of Tables: 12 No. of Figures: 22 No. of Pages: 57

The coal sector in Kazakhstan is said to have enough reserves to last over 100 years, but the forecasted reserves are expected to last several hundreds of years. This makes investing in the fuel and energy sector of the country an attractive option for many international and private organisations. The proven on-shore reserves will ensure extraction for over 30 years for oil and 75 years for gas. The future development of the domestic oil sector depends mainly on developing the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea.

The coal sector, while not a top priority for the Kazakh government, puts the country among the world’s top ten coal-rich countries. Kazakhstan contains Central Asia’s largest recoverable coal reserves. In future, the development of the raw materials base will be achieved through enriching and improving the quality of the coal and the deep processing of coal to obtain fluid fuel and synthetic substances. Developing shale is also topical. The high concentration of methane in coal layers makes it possible to extract it and utilise it on a large scale.

However, today the country’s energy sector, which was largely established in the Soviet times, has reached its potential. Being alert to the impending problems, the government is planning to undertake large-scale modernisation of the existing facilities and construct new ones during 2015-30.

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