87% des travaux de remplacement des pipelines défectueux sont réalisés.
http://www.naturalgaseurope.com/caspian ... agan-30238CASPIAN OVERVIEW: CASH AGAIN FROM KASHAGAN
Kazakhstan is preparing to resume oil and gas production from the giant offshore Kashagan sour oil field, which also contains 1 trillion m3 of associated gas.
Prime minister Karim Masimov announced that the field would become operational again in October 2016.
Kazakhstan stopped production from its biggest field in September 2013, just two weeks after it started, because of a gas leakage. Another leak was discovered immediately after resumption of production in October 2013.
Analysis revealed numerous cracks in the pipeline, caused by sulphuric acid in the flow of hydrocarbons. In April 2014, the project operator, North Caspian Operating Co (NCOC), confirmed that the gas and oil pipelines of the field, 200 km in total length, had to be rebuilt from scratch.
The government had planned to resume oil and gas production from Kashagan in December 2016, but Masimov said that it would be resumed in October. “The repair works are in progress to resume oil production on the Kashagan field. With the current plan we have actually completed 87% of works instead of planned about 83%. We had a problem with the ecological fines, but the problem has been solved. If we launch Kashagan ahead of time, in October, the expected volume of oil production in the country will rise to 70.5mn mt in 2016.”
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http://www.reuters.com/article/eni-resu ... SL8N1AF22L.....The company also said on Friday it expected output to grow by more than 5 percent next year as production starts at its long-delayed Kashagan project in Kazakhstan, as well as in Ghana and Egypt's Zohr.......
KASHAGAN, FINALLY
Eni said it expected the giant Kashagan field to start up in October this year, producing 230,000 boe by year-end, rising to 370,000 boe by mid-2017.
After huge delays and cost overruns, Kashagan finally began producing oil in September 2013 but halted production a few weeks later after gas leaks were detected in its pipelines.
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