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Каспинфо октябрь 2001 |
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Название: Короткие сообщения на англ. языке Главные Пункты: * Эксперты МИД Украины рассматривают вопрос транспортировки каспийской нефти по территории Украины по маршруту Баку-Супса-Одесса-Броды. * Проект оценочного бурения на Восточном Кашагане может быть завершён к августу 2002 г., на два года ранее запланированного срока, сообщил региональный менеджер Аджип ККО А.Киура. Запасы месторождения оцениваются минимум в 3 млрд. 600 тыс. т нефти, заявил он. * Министр торговли США Д.Эванс рассматривает пуск КТК, в сооружение которого американские компании вложили более $1 млрд., как знак того, что инвестиционный климат в РФ благоприятствует дальнейшим американским инвестициям в российскую экономику. * и др. сообщения. (22.10.2001) Полный Текст Короткие сообщения на англ. языке Короткие сообщения на англ. языке *** BAKU-SUPSA-ODESSA-BRODY Is A Promising Route For Caspian Energy Ukraine is interested in transit of Caspian energy to European markets via its territory, said Foreign Minister of Ukraine Anatoly Zlenko, who paid an official visit to Azerbaijan to discuss the issue with SOCAR's directors. The official said that transportation of Caspian hydrocarbons via the Baku-Supsa-Odessa-Brody route is highly prospective and today it is necessary to develop a feasibility study of this project. Ukrainian specialists are working on the issue. www.top.az *** SOCAR Drills Second Offshoot Of Exploration Well In GYUNESHLI Drilling of the second offshoot of the first exploration well #28 from the stationary platform #19 at Gyuneshli has begun. Drilling of the first offshoot stopped at the depth of 2,920 meters due to geologic problems which arose due to poor procurement. The planned depth of the second offshoot makes up 2,330 meters. The well is estimated to have the daily flow rate of 500,000 cu meters of gas. The platform #19 intended for drilling eight gas production wells was installed in the southern part of the field. A part of gas produced from the fields will be distributed on the home market and the remaining part will be used for gas-lift operation. www.top.az *** Computer-Based Operational System To Be Created In GYUNESHLI A SOCAR's representative said that specialists are carrying out a project for creation of a computer-based system to develop and implement the programmes for optimum performance of every well. The system will help to transfer data on shore for analysis and operative intervention if necessary. SOCAR extracts the major part of its offshore gas in shallow Gyuneshli (6m cu meters per day). SOCAR produced 1.669bn cu meters of gas from January to September this year (77.8m cu meters above the plan) and 4,449,600 tonnes of oil, (18,770 tonnes above the plan). Non-recoverable reserves in Gyuneshli total 59.7m tonnes of oil and 16.373m cu meters of gas. The fields are located southeast of the Apsheron peninsula. It accounts for 63% of overall oil produced in Azerbaijan. SOCAR is exploring 17 oil and gas offshore fields. www.top.az *** AGIP KCO Gives Exact Estimates Of KASHAGAN Reserves The appraisal drilling in Kashagan East may be finished by August 2002, which is two years ahead of the schedule, says Agip KCO regional manager Andrea Chiura at a meeting with the Aberdeen Chamber of Industry and Commerce (UK). The representative of Agip KCO stated that Kashagan reserves amount to 3,000,600,000 tonnes, which is three times as much as in Tengiz based on the most moderate estimates. Although this figure is much lower than the forecast seven billion tonnes, this is the first time when the official representative of the project operator speaks about specific figures. www.top.az *** SHYMKENT Refinery Suspended For One Month The press service of Shymkentnefteorgsintez (SHNOS) has announced a scheduled suspension of the plant for one month starting on 17th October. This is done pursuant to the schedule approved by the Government of Kazakhstan and in accordance with state requirements for annual overhaul of all refineries. This suspension will also allow to complete the company's investment programme for this year, which provides for repair of the refining unit to improve fractioning qualities and hydraulic treaters to increase the output and improve its quality, as well as check of all equipment at the refinery. During the first nine months of 2001, the plant refined 2.9 million tones of crude. www.top.az *** Gas Pipeline To Heat-Power Plant #1 Burst Yesterday in Almaty, a private company broke through Kaztransgas' pipeline which supplies gas to the heat-power plant #1, during unsanctioned earthmoving operations. Kaztransgas set up an ad-hoc commission to define the party in fault and compensation to be paid by the company which violated earthmoving operations requirements. www.top.az *** CNA: Russia's Evans Hails New Pipeline 16.10.2001 By Vladimir Isachenkov //Associated Press Writer// Commerce Secretary Donald Evans on Monday hailed the first commercial shipment of oil along a new Caspian pipeline built with the assistance of ChevronTexaco and praised the Kremlin's efforts to liberalize the Russian economy and encourage foreign investment. ChevronTexaco Corp. announced Monday it had completed loading the first tanker from the pipeline operated by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, also known as CPC. ``U.S. companies are the largest investors in the CPC, over $1 billion,'' Evans said. ``The CPC pipeline is the largest American investment in Russia that sends a powerful signal back to America that the environment is right to invest in this country.'' The 980-mile pipeline, which connects the Tengiz oilfield in western Kazakstan to Russia's Black Sea port of Novorossiisk, currently has a capacity of 30.8 million tons of oil a year, set to expand to 73.7 million tons a year by 2015. ChevronTexaco Vice Chairman Richard Matzke said Monday that so far, only 13.2 million tons of oil had been pledged for the pipeline. Evans praised Russian President Vladimir Putin (news - web sites) for expressing Russia's sympathy and support for the United States following the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. ``Separate and apart from the horrific attack of Sept. 11, it's obvious to the business community that under President Putin's leadership, this country is moving toward developing a market-based economy,'' Evans said. Later Monday, Frito-Lay, the Texas-based snack food division of PepsiCo Inc., announced it would invest $40 million in Russia to build a potato chip plant. PepsiCo is based in Purchase, N.Y. Frito-Lay has already invested $20 million to develop a distribution system that reaches over 70 percent of Russia. CNA/www.caspian.ru *** First Kazakh-Russia CPC oil being shipped 15.10.2001 //Reuters// The first Kazakh crude from a new $2.5 billion pipeline was loaded on a tanker at Russia's Black Sea Novorossiisk oil port on Monday after several months of delay, an oil industry source said. The 1,580 km (980-mile) Kazakhstan-Russia pipeline, built by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) stretches from Kazakhstan's giant Tengiz oil field. The first oil had been expected to flow in June, but customs and technical problems caused a delay. The pipeline is the first to be completed since the fall of the Soviet Union to ship oil to Western markets from the Caspian Sea, where oil reserves are estimated to be similar to those of the North Sea. A formal announcement is expected to be made at an 0800 GMT news conference by U.S. Commerce Secretary Don Evans, visiting Moscow with a delegation of U.S. businessmen. CPC is led by U.S. oil major Chevron. It also unites the governments of Russia, Kazakhstan and Oman with oil firms LukArco, Rosneft-Shell Caspian Ventures and Kazakhstan Pipeline Ventures LLC Mobil Caspian Pipeline Company. The news conference with Evans is also to be attended by the head of CPC, Russian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref and the head of LUKOIL. Initial capacity of the pipeline is expected to be 28.2 million tonnes a year (around 560,000 barrels a day). Its estimated final capacity will 67 million tonnes a year. The Caspian area is the target of diplomatic intrigue, with the sea itself, on which five states have borders, not yet formally demarcated between each country. It is bordered by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan. Friction over territorial rights in the sea intensified this year when Iranian gunboats chased off an Azeri vessel which was exploring disputed waters. The United States, seeking to increase its influence in the region, has also been promoting routes west which avoid Russia. The main one to receive its backing is a pipeline costed at around $3 billion from the capital of Azerbaijan, Baku, to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. 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