At a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan on May 6, Deputy Prime Minister Charymyrat Purchekov , who is in charge of the construction, industrial and energy complex, presented President Serdar Berdimuhamedov with a draft resolution on the construction of an isobutane production unit at a polymer plant in Kiyanly. This was reported by the state news agency TDH .

The head of state signed the document and ordered the vice-premier to put various facilities into operation in a timely manner.

Wiki help . The main use of isobutane in industry is as a raw material for the production of isobutylene, which in turn is a raw material for the production of butyl rubber.

Purchekov was also ordered:

• speed up the work of the State Agency for Road Construction Management ( it was established on February 3, on February 7, Serdargeldi Yolamanov was appointed chairman of the new department );

• speed up the construction of the new capital of the Akhal velayat (on April 28, the president inspected the city under construction and ordered to speed up its construction, choose its name and resettle people);

• to continue work on the creation of an energy ring in Turkmenistan and the laying of a power line Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan.

It was planned to produce isobutane at the polymer plant in Kiyanly from 2020. In May of that year, it became known that Turkmengaz announced a second international tender (the first was announced in March) for the construction of an isobutane production unit at this plant.

Then, already in December of the same year, it was reported that the production of isobutane would begin at the polymer plant.

The polymer plant in Kiyanly was opened in October 2018. The cost of its construction is $3.4 billion. The project was implemented by the Turkmengas State Concern together with LG International Corp, Hyundai Engineering (Korea) and TOYO Engineering Corporation (Japan).

Source: Chronicles of Turkmenistan