Sinopec Engineering hires big in Kazakhstan

Sinopec Engineering (Group) Co Ltd provided more than 5,000 job opportunities in Kazakhstan by 2016 through joint business projects with local oil and gas company KazMunaiGas, which helped promote the transformation and upgrading of the Central Asian country's petroleum industry, company executives said.

The company, a unit of China Petrochemical Corporation, provides integrated engineering services to the domestic and overseas refining and chemical engineering market, according to its official website.

Among the 39 overseas projects carried out last year, 37 were in economies along the Belt and Road, including 12 in Saudi Arabia, two in Kazakhstan and others in Kuwait and Malaysia. The total contract value exceeded $8.59 billion, said Chen Xiaodong, general manager of the international business department at Sinopec Engineering.