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Karachaganak back online
Operations at the onshore Karachaganak gas condensate field in Kazakhstan
have been restored following repairs,
its operating consortium KPO said on October 15.
Maintenance began at the field on September 15. As a result of the shutdown, the field’s output will fall to 11mn tonnes of condensate in 2019, from 12.2mn tonnes in 2018.
Karachaganak is one of the largest gas condensate fields in the world and one of Kazakhstan’s ‘big three’ upstream projects.
October 15 2019
ACG’s West Chirag platform closes for inspections
The West Chirag platform at Azerbaijan’s offshore Azeri-Chirag-Gunashli (ACG) oil project closed down on October 15 for 15 days of inspections and project work, the Trend news agency has reported.
The project work includes various flare and control systems upgrades, as part of
an annual work programme. Operations at ACG’s other six platforms, and all other BP-operated facilities in Azerbaijan, will continue as normal.
October 15 2019
Shell to construct new
gas processing plant in
Uzbekistan
Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary Shell Catalysts & Technologies and Uzbekistan’s Surhan Gas Chemical Operating Company have signed a process licence agreement providing for the construction of a gas processing plant with a throughput capacity of 5bn cubic metres in Uzbekistan.
The plant is set to be built near gas fields south of Surkhandarya Region. Surhan Gas Chemical Operating Company manages the development of the Baysun investment block in Surkhandarya Region. The planned facility will rely on Shell’s technology to “separate gaseous impurities and turn them into by-products”.
The project will be carried out in
two phases with the first phase planned until 2022, which will include geological exploration, drilling and construction
of infrastructure along with the gas
processing plant itself. The second phase will span 2023-2025, envisaging the construction of a gas-chemical capacity worth annual 500,000 tonnes of polymers.
bne IntelliNews, October 15 2019
Kashagan output down on unscheduled repairs
Production at Kazakhstan’s giant Kashagan oil project in the Caspian Sea has fallen since October 6 because of unscheduled maintenance, the country’s energy ministry told Reuters. But the repairs were completed on October 14.
Sources had told the news agency that daily production had slumped to 294,000 barrels, from 365,000 barrels earlier in the month, as a result of a loss of pressure at
a compressor and its subsequent repair. According to the ministry, output fell by 75,000-80,000 bpd.
Kashagan is operated by an international consortium that includes Italy’s Eni, ExxonMobil, China’s CNPC, Shell, France’s Total, Japan’s Inpex and Kazakhstan’s KazMunayGaz (KMG).
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