It could take the rest of the year for the Kashagan oil field in the Kazakh waters of the Caspian Sea to reach its full design capacity, the operator said. The Kashagan oil field offshore Kazakhstan was declared a commercial prospect in 2002. Development, however, has been impeded by a series of issues with infrastructure in a complex reservoir environment. Production moved in fits and starts after the commercial declaration and finally resumed in October 2016 following several years of delays brought on by an extreme operating environment with high levels of poisonous hydrogen sulfide. The North Caspian Operating Co., the field’s operator, said in an emailed statement it was dedicated to reaching a design capacity of […]