Kazakhstan must create powerful jet fuel supply infrastructure - president

ASTANA. June 30 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan must create a powerful infrastructure for supplying jet fuel, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said.

"Being a leading oil and gas country in the region, we must create a powerful infrastructure for aviation fuel supply. This is a very important, pressing task," Tokayev said at a joint session of the parliament on Tuesday.

It was reported that the country's national welfare fund Samruk-Kazyna and Italy's Maire Tecnimont planned to sign an agreement to build a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) plant.

Samruk-Kazyna runs Kazakhstan's major strategic assets including oil, gas, transport, logistics and energy companies.

Maire S.p.A. (Maire Tecnimont) is an Italian engineering and technological group actively involved in low-carbon fuel, biofuel and SAF projects.