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Category: Kazakhstan

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  • Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan Is Eager To Abandon The OPEC+ Deal

Kazakhstan meticulously studied the lessons of the 2014/2015 oil slump and has so far survived the last 12 months’ market depression with legislative and executive poise. Though still heavily dependent Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Mar 2021 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan’s Tengiz output drops 100,000 b/d in Q2, 12% on year, on OPEC+ cuts

Crude production from Kazakhstan’s highest-producing oil field, Tengiz, dropped 12% on the year in the second quarter to 570,000 b/d, figures from the Chevron-led operating consortium showed Sept. 9, reflecting Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Chevron-led Kazakh consortium fulfilling OPEC+ cuts for May-June

The Chevron-led consortium that operates Kazakhstan’s largest oil field, Tengiz, is imposing production cuts in line with government legislation covering May-June and is not yet aware of additional restrictions for Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

This Oil Nation Sees Production Drop As COVID-19 Cases Spike

Kazakhstan’s crude oil production has fallen below 1.7 million bpd of crude and condensates, oil analytics firm OilX told Oilprice.com, noting that the giant Tengiz field has seen a jump Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Oil Major Chevron Could Be Forced To Cut Oil Production In Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan is in talks with the companies operating its two sizeable offshore oil projects to reduce total output by 22 percent in compliance with the latest OPEC+ production cut agreement. Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Apr 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Oil-Dependent Kazakhstan Faces Recession As Price War Rages On

The government in Kazakhstan has, in the light of the unfolding coronavirus pandemic and the concomitant fall in global oil prices, revised its economic projections for this year to forecast Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Apr 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan’s CPC crude loadings surge to record high in March

Loadings of Kazakhstan’s CPC crude grade spiked to a record-high 1.65 million b/d in March propelled by production from the giant Tengiz and Kashagan fields, the pipeline’s operator said in Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Apr 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Azerbaijan
  • Kazakhstan

Feature: Caspian oil producers face growing investor skepticism

Three decades after gaining independence, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan face a growing struggle convincing investors and markets of the potential for significant new oil opportunities in the Caspian region. Receive daily Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Dec 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Mammoth Oil Field Hit Hard By Unplanned Production Cuts

Oil production at one of the world’s largest offshore oil fields, Kashagan in Kazakhstan, has dropped by 80,000 barrels per day since early October because of unplanned maintenance, Kazakhstan’s energy Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Oct 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kashagan consortium eyes output increases, new joint project

Kazakhstan’s North Caspian Operating Company, which manages the giant Kashagan oil field, is planning further production increases after recent upgrade and maintenance work, and aims to present a new project Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Jul 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Chevron chastised by Kazakh leadership after oil field violence

Kazakhstan has snubbed a top Chevron official over unrest at the giant Tengiz oil field, operated by the company’s Kazakh joint venture Tengizchevroil (TCO), as new President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev welcomed Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Jul 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

This Giant Oil Field Just Hit An Impressive Production Record

The giant Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan hit a record-high oil production of 400,000 bpd on Tuesday, a few weeks after returning from planned maintenance, three sources familiar with the Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Jun 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

This Giant Oil Field Just Hit An Impressive Production Record

The giant Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan hit a record-high oil production of 400,000 bpd on Tuesday, a few weeks after returning from planned maintenance, three sources familiar with the Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Jun 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • France
  • Kazakhstan

Total Looks To Raise $4B By Cutting Stake In Giant Kashagan Oil Field

France’s oil and gas major Total is looking to sell a third of its 17-percent interest in the giant Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan, aiming to raise up to US$4 Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 May 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan’s giant Kashagan oil field restarts production: partner

Tokyo — Production at the giant Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan’s sector of the Caspian Sea restarted Sunday following the completion of scheduled maintenance, a source with a partner in Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 May 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan Delays Oil Firm’s IPO Amid Worsening Market Conditions

Kazakhstan has postponed the listing of its state oil and gas firm KazMunayGas (KMG) until after 2019, due to worsening market conditions and Brexit uncertainty that could dampen investor appetite Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Feb 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan’s Oil Dilemma

It was a hot July morning in 2000 when a helicopter carrying Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev landed on a drilling barge on the Caspian Sea. An anxious-looking Nazarbayev emerged from Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Feb 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Chevron Bets Big On Supergiant Oil Field

Chevron announced last week its capital and exploratory budget for 2019, which sees the first annual increase in spending since the 2014 oil price crash. While most of the investment is geared toward short-cycle Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Dec 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Energy majors to pay Kazakhstan $1.1 billion to settle Karachaganak row

Energy majors developing the Karachaganak gas condensate field will pay $1.1 billion to Kazakhstan to settle a profit-sharing dispute, Kazakhstan’s Energy Ministry said on Monday. Kazakhstan and the consortium led Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Oct 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Expect stability from oil-rich Kazakhstan, Fitch Ratings says

The outlook for a pipeline company that controls about half of the oil flow in Kazakhstan remains stable and supportive of growth, Fitch Ratings said. Fitch Ratings affirmed a BBB-rating Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Apr 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan Offers Shell Up To 20% In State Oil Firm

Kazakhstan’s sovereign wealth fund has offered to Shell up to a 20 percent stake in KazMunayGas (KMG) in a bid raise the value of the state oil company ahead of Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Mar 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kashagan output crosses 300,000 b/d, but ‘giant’ increases unlikely: Shell executive

Kazakhstan’s giant Kashagan oil field is achieving new production highs every month and has done better than 300,000 b/d, but development beyond the current phase is likely to be about Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Feb 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan to pump over 2 million b/d crude oil, gas condensate in 2025

Kazakhstan aims to increase crude and gas condensate production by nearly 25% to 2.155 million b/d by 2025, according to the country’s development strategy released Tuesday. Kashagan and Tengiz key Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Feb 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kashagan oil field inching toward design capacity

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. Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Feb 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

The Least Compliant Country In The OPEC Deal

Yesterday’s monthly oil market report from OPEC showed that oil production from Kazakhstan likely increased by 180,000 bpd in 2017 to 1.74 million barrels per day. Such a rise gives Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Businessman Seeks Sale Of $5.2B Stake In Kazakhstan Oil Field

Moldovan businessman Anatolie Stati will ask courts to sell US$5.2 billion worth of a stake in Kazakhstan’s biggest oil field, Kashagan, held by a Kazakh sovereign wealth fund if Kazakhstan Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Jan 2018 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Eni says Kazakh agreement moves it closer to exploration

Italian energy company Eni said Friday it grabbed a stronger hold over a reservoir in Kazakhstan it said has a “significant” potential for oil resources. The Kazakh government and a Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Dec 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

The Coal Miners That Refuse To Resurface

A strike by coal miners in north-central Kazakhstan has spread to more mines as hundreds of workers are refusing to return to the surface, demanding higher salaries and better benefits. Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Dec 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan hopes for Karachaganak gas field deal by year-end

Kazakhstan hopes to settle a dispute with global energy companies developing the Karachaganak gas condensate field in the coming weeks, Energy Minister Kanat Bozumbayev told reporters on Monday. “I hope Continue Reading

Posted On : 27 Nov 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

The World’s Largest Offshore Oil Field Is Back In Action

Without much international fanfare, the world’s largest offshore oil field and the largest discovered in the last 40 years, Kazakhstan’s Kashagan Field, is on the verge of finally moving beyond Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Sep 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan
  • OPEC

Kazakhstan Bows Out Of OPEC Deal

Energy Minister Kanat Bozumbayev said at an industry conference in Istanbul over the weekend that Kazakhstan’s withdrawal from its pledge to the cap will take place gradually, Russian news agency Continue Reading

Posted On : 12 Jul 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan ‘hugely’ important to oil and gas industry

The head of the oil and gas division of GE says Kazakhstan has a significant role to play in global energy industries. Photo courtesy of the North Caspian Operating Company Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Jun 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

No change in oil production plans, Kazakh oil company says

Crude oil production from Kazakhstan could increase by the end of the year once operations at its Kashagan oil field are optimized. Photo courtesy of North Caspian Operating Company. June Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Jun 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

More oil expected from Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan could add at least another quarter million barrels of oil per day to the market through new field development, a country assessment found. The U.S. Energy Information Administration updated Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 May 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

KBR hired as consultant by Kazakh oil producer

U.S. engineering services company KBR said it secured a contract for conceptual studies for oil field basins located in the Kazakh waters of the Caspian Sea. The North Caspian Operating Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Mar 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Oil production from Kazakhstan on the rise

Production from part of Kashagan oil field in the Kazakh waters of the Caspian Sea should reach capacity by the end of the year, an operating company said. According to Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Feb 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Milestone reached for Kashagan oil field

More than 7 million barrels of oil produced and exported from the Kashagan oil field off the coast of Kazakhstan since late 2016. Photo courtesy of the North Caspian Operating Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Jan 2017 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kazakh President Says Partners in Shell Oil Field Face Tax Claim

Kazakhstan’s authorities are looking at whether the Karachaganak oil and gas venture, which includes Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Eni SpA, has unpaid taxes. “The tax authorities have tax issues Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Nov 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Commercial production started at giant Kashagan oil field

Commercial production from the giant Kashagan oil field in the Caspian waters of Kazakhstan has begun, a spokesperson for a regional operating company said. Production at Kashagan, which holds an Continue Reading

Posted On : 22 Nov 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan’s Kashagan Produces 201,000 Tons Of Oil In October

Kazakhstan’s Kashagan oil field produced about 201,000 tons of oil in October, its first full month of operation, data from the Energy Ministry’s analytical center showed. MOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Nov 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Kashagan crude oil ready for exports

The first batch of crude oil from the giant Kashagan oil field off the coast of Kazakhstan has been processed and is destined for exports, an operator said. “North Caspian Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Oct 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Oil From $50 Billion Kashagan Field Starts Flowing to Export

Giant Kazakh deposit pumps crude for export to world markets Offshore, onshore commissioning work continues at Kashagan Kashagan, a vast oil field in the Caspian Sea, sent its first crude Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Oct 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Oil Production Starts At Giant Kashagan Field

Commercial-scale production at Kazakhstan’s giant Kashagan field in the Caspian Sea has started at a daily rate of 90,000 barrels, the country’s Energy Minister Qanat Bozumbaev said . The field Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Oct 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

World’s Most Expensive Oil Project Could Finally Come Online

One of the world’s largest oil projects could soon come online, bringing a rush of new supply that could delay the oil market balance. The Kashagan oilfield is years behind Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Sep 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Vast Kazakh Oil Field Seen Taking Another Decade to Reach Target

Kashagan won’t hit Eni’s 2017 output goal until 2020s: WoodMac OPEC heeds Eni’s forecast, raising its non-OPEC supply outlook Kazakhstan’s giant Kashagan oil field has taken 16 years and more Continue Reading

Posted On : 14 Sep 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Azerbaijan
  • Kazakhstan

Exclusive: New Caspian fields to add at least 200,000 bpd to oil market by year-end

 Two major Caspian Sea oil fields scheduled to come on stream this year will together produce at least 200,000 barrels of crude per day (bpd) by the end of 2016, Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Sep 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Chevron, Exxon Commit to $36.8 Billion Expansion Project in Tengiz

The investment in the expansion of the field known as Tengiz—one of the world’s largest—comes on top of around $37 billion already spent by Chevron, the operator, and its partners: Continue Reading

Posted On : 6 Jul 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Chevron, Exxon Commit to $36.8 Billion Expansion Project in Tengiz

The investment in the expansion of the field known as Tengiz—one of the world’s largest—comes on top of around $37 billion already spent by Chevron, the operator, and its partners: Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Jul 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Chevron Approves $37 Billion Expansion of Kazakh Oil Project

Chevron Corp. has decided to go ahead with the $36.8 billion expansion of the Tengiz oil project in Kazakhstan. The company and its partners will spend $27.1 billion on facilities, Continue Reading

Posted On : 5 Jul 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Kazakhstan

Chevron Deadline Nears for $40 Billion Bet on Next Decade’s Oil

Kazakhstan expansion would add a Libya of new supply Tengiz is only major new project on Chevron’s 2016 agenda Chevron Corp. may shortly give a green light to the most Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Jul 2016 Published By : Tom Whipple

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