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Tatneft to continue work at

Turkmen onshore field

TURKMENISTAN RUSSIA’S Tatneft is set to continue its work in to bring it into commercial development was
enhanced oil recovery (EOR) at the Goturdepe launched in 2018. The Turkmen government has
Tatneft has been field in Turkmenistan under a contract exten- been seeking investors for North Goturdepe for
working at the mature sion, the company said on December 4. years but is yet to forge any partnerships.
onshore oilfield for ten Tatneft, whose activities are mostly in Russia’s Also near the Caspian shore, Turkmenistan
years. Tatarstan region, has been providing its technol- discovered the Uzynada field in 2017, after drill-
ogies and expertise at Goturdepe since 2010 ing a super-deep well measuring more than
under a contract for workover services and EOR. 7,000 metres in depth. It is seeking a foreign
During that time some $32mn has been invested partner there as well.
in restoring oil production at 128 wells. Turkmenistan’s preference is to bring on
The contract has now been extended for eight board foreign partners like Tatneft as contrac-
years until 2028, Tatneft said in a statement. tors to develop its onshore oil and gas, rather
Goturdpe is situated near the Caspian Sea than providing them with operatorships and
some 90 km from Balkanabat and is one of Turk- subsoil rights at assets. The exceptions are Chi-
menistan’s oldest oilfields. It was first drilled in na’s CNPC, which has a production-sharing
1948 and was brought into production in 1959. agreement (PSA) for the Bagtyyarlyk gas block
Its operator is state oil concern Turkmenneft. in south-eastern Turkmenistan, Italy’s Eni with
Turkmen geologists discovered another a PSA for the Nebit Dag field in western Turk-
field nearby, North Goturdepe, in 2010. The menistan and Austria’s Mitro International at the
field straddles the Caspian shore, and a project Hazar field, also in the west. ™

TCO says Tengiz expansion still on

track despite COVID-19 surge

KAZAKHSTAN THE Chevron-led Tengiz giant oilfield project in the workforce with shift workers arriving at the
Kazakhstan has reported a fresh surge in corona- field being subject to testing and quarantine, he
There were 140 new virus cases but the field’s operator Tengizchevroil added.
cases of infection at the (TCO) said it remained confident that no impact "Now workers are divided into different
field in November and would be felt in ongoing multi-billion-dollar zones, which do not interact with each other, and
71 since the start of expansion work, Upstream has reported. are isolated from each other. Other measures are
December. More medical personnel have been dis- in place too, such as masks and social distancing”
patched to the field to prevent the further he said.
spreading of the infection. Earlier in 2020, TCO "Tengiz is a very large construction project.
employed strict measures and the demobilisa- There is the construction of a third-generation
tion of workers in order to curb an initial spike plant and many related facilities. As of today,
in infections among workers. November saw 140 there are about 27,000 people at the field. In Feb-
new cases of infection reported at the field, but ruary, there were about 50,000,” he told report-
as of the end of last week 71 new cases have been ers. ™
reported since the beginning of December.
“The infection ward in Tengiz has 315 beds,
of which 111 are occupied,” authorities at an offi-
cial communication centre in Atyrau Region,
where Tengiz is located, said.
There are no plans to reduce output at
Tengiz due to the coronavirus, Atyrau gover-
nor Makhambet Dosmukhambetov said at a
briefing.
TCO is carrying out “a special regimen” for

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