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Wison awarded EPC contact for Kazakhstan’s first LNG plant

| By Mary Bailey

Wison Engineering Services Co. (Shanghai; www.wison-engineering.com) announced that its non-wholly owned affiliated company, Wison Engineering Ltd., has been awarded an engineering, procurement and construction management (EPC) contract for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) project by Astana Trans Oil LLP, which is the first LNG facility in Kazakhstan. According to the contract, Wison Engineering will be responsible for the turnkey services from FEED, basic and detailed engineering, procurement, construction, to commissioning, start-up, and operators training. The project is scheduled to be delivered at the end of 2018.

The project is located in state of Zhambyl, Kazakhstan, which is one of the Sino-Kazakhstan production capacity cooperation projects. The project is of great significance to the promotion of Sino-Kazakhstan relationship under “the Belt and Road” policy, enrichment of “the Silk Road Economic Belt” development as well as execution of the “Bright Path” new economic policy by the government of Republic of Kazakhstan.

Adhering to internationalization strategy, Wison Engineering has been actively seeking business opportunities in countries under “the Belt and Road” policy in terms of energy development. The company has established a management system and execution team to cater to its international business operations in combination with a global procurement and construction resources network. Currently, execution of several major EPC projects in the Middle East and South America is in progress.