KazMunayGas Board Chairman Askhat Khasenov met KBR Senior Vice-President Hari Ravindran on the sidelines of the B20 USA Summit 2026 in Washington. They discussed progress on a project to build Kazakhstan’s first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in Rudny, Kostanay Region.
KazMunayGas, KBR and KazFoodProducts previously signed an agreement setting out key cooperation terms, including the use of licensed PureSAF technology and development of a Process Design Package (PDP). The PDP is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2027, after which Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) work is planned to begin.
The proposed plant will have capacity to produce 57,000 tonnes of SAF annually and process 100,000 tonnes of bioethanol a year. Its feedstock will be bioethanol from the BioOperations plant, which is part of KazFoodProducts.
