Comprehensive Maintenance Contract for Turkmenistan GTG Plant Takes Effect

March 26, 2024 — Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. announced today that a comprehensive maintenance contract signed on December 14, 2023 with state-owned company Turkmenhimiya State Concern entered into effect as of March 22, 2024. The contract aims to ensure stable operation of a gas-to-gasoline (GTG) plant completed in 2019 in the Ovadan-Depe area of Turkmenistan’s Ahal Region, near the national capital city of Ashgabat.

The plant utilizes natural gas as a base ingredient to produce high-quality gasoline. The contract was awarded due to high praise from Turkmenhimiya and the Turkmenistan government for Kawasaki’s past successes in ensuring stable plant operations as well as the company’s excellent technological capabilities and past contributions to Turkmenistan. Kawasaki also earned this latest contract thanks to its strong partnership with collaborative partner ITOCHU Corporation. Over the next three years, Kawasaki will provide support for stable plant operations and dispatch engineering staff to the site.

Since the plant’s completion in 2019, Kawasaki has contributed to diversification of product exports from the Central Asian resource-rich nation of Turkmenistan as well as its stable supply of energy to nearby countries.
Moving forward, Kawasaki will continue leveraging its technological strengths to help realize decarbonization in Turkmenistan and contribute toward further growth for the nation’s chemical industry.

Relevant links

Introduction video: Turkmenistan Gas to Gasoline Plant Introduction video (You Tube)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpWBSM-34rM

Kawasaki Launches World’s Largest GTG Plant in Turkmenistan (June 28, 2019)

https://global.kawasaki.com/en/corp/newsroom/news/detail/?f=20190628_1858

Sojitz and Kawasaki Heavy Industries Complete Largest Fertilizer Plant in Turkmenistan (October 17, 2014)

https://global.kawasaki.com/en/corp/newsroom/news/detail/?f=20141017_1300