据俄罗斯油气网10月14日阿斯塔纳报道，法国最大的工业气体制造商法国液化空气集团（法国液空）旗下的液空卡拉巴坦技术气体公司和哈萨克斯坦石化工业公司(KPI)上周在巴黎签署了一份长期技术气体供应合同。
哈萨克斯坦国家投资公司（KazakhInvest）新闻办公室说：“这项合同规定在哈萨克斯坦自由经济区国家工业石化技术园的土地上建造一个生产干压缩空气和氮气的工厂。这项合同还规定将向位于哈萨克斯坦西部的综合天然气化工联合体提供干压缩空气和氮气。
合同的签署是法国液空在哈萨克斯坦发展的下一步，它是法国液空与哈萨克斯坦国家石油天然气公司（KazMunayGas）组建的合资企业的一部分。
法国是哈萨克斯坦5大贸易和投资伙伴之一，双边贸易额达到了500亿美元。双方在铀、油气、钛工业、运输工程、建材生产、食物产品等领域实施了多个大型联合投资项目，哈萨克斯坦14年来共吸引了法国投资156多亿美元。
130多家拥有法国资本的公司在哈萨克斯坦运营。这些大型跨国公司包括阿尔斯通、道达尔、欧拉诺、达能、维卡特等。在哈萨克斯坦的外国投资者名单中，法国排名第三。
李峻 编译自 俄罗斯油气网
原文如下：
French and Kazakh companies ink a long- term contract
The French company Air Liquide Karabatan Tech Gases and Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries (KPI) have signed last week in Paris a long-term contract for the supply of technical gases, the press service of KazakhInvest National Company said.
“The contract provides for the construction of a plant for the production of dry compressed air and nitrogen on the territory of the Free Economic Zone National Industrial Petrochemical Technopark. The contract also provides for the supply of dry compressed air and nitrogen to the Integrated Gas Chemical Complex (in western Kazakhstan),” KazakhInvest said.
This signing was the next step in the development of AirLiquide in Kazakhstan as part of a joint venture with the Kazakhstan national oil and gas company KazMunayGas.
France is among the 5 key trade and investment partners of Kazakhstan, mutual trade turnover reached $50 billion. The parties implemented several large joint investment projects in the uranium, oil and gas, titanium industries, in the field of transport engineering, production of building materials, food products, etc. over the past 14 years, it has attracted more than $15.6 billion of investments from France.
More than 130 companies with French capital operate in Kazakhstan. These are such large multinational companies as Alstom, Total, Orano, Danone, VICAT and others. France is in 3rd place among foreign investors in Kazakhstan.
