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Название: Нефтегазовая отрасль стран Прикаспия на англ. языке Главные Пункты: * Казахская Национальная Нефтяная Компания и КСО объявили, что возобновляемые запасы Кашагана составляют 7-9 млрд. баррелей нефти. Эта цифра может быть пересмотрена в ходе проведения дальнейших исследований. * Глава департамента зарубежных проектов ЛУКОйл А.Кузяев заявил, что компания стремится к увеличению свего присутствия в Каспийском регионе. ЛУКОйл пока не дал своего согласия, но и не отказался от участия в проекте Баку-Джейхан, сказал Кузяев. (08.07.2002) Полный Текст Нефтегазовая отрасль стран Прикаспия на англ. языке Нефтегазовая отрасль стран Прикаспия на англ. языке *** /12:37 01.07.2002/ Kashagan oil field contains recoverable reserves of at least seven to nine billion barrels of oil Alma-Ata, July 1, 2002. (CNA). Kazakhstan's Caspian Sea oilfield of Kashagan contains recoverable reserves of at least seven to nine billion barrels of oil, the Kazakh National Petroleum Company and consortium Agip KCO announced Saturday in a statement. The number could be revised upwards on the basis of further research, the head of Kazakhstan's Kazmunaigas Company, Lyazzat Kiinov, was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. Meanwhile, Pietro Cavanna, deputy head of the Management Committee of Agip KCO, said that the total geological reserves in the massive oilfield, located in Kazakhstan's sector of the inland sea, were put at 38 billion barrels. Kazakh officials had previously said that the oilfield could hold some 50 billion barrels of crude with anything from 10 billion to 25 billion barrels of this recoverable. The field has been dubbed one of the largest oil discoveries to be made in the last 30 years while Kazakh officials have said they hope it will catapult their country into the ranks of the world's top oil producers. Agip KCO is expected to begin test production of oil from Kashagan in 2005 and commercial production in 2006, Kiinov was quoted by Interfax as saying. Some seven billion dollars are expected to be invested in the exploitation of Kashagan from 2003 to 2006, and the consortium has already invested $1.2 billion in developing the field, he added. The former ex-Soviet Central Asian republic could receive from $150 million to $200 million every year from 2006 depending on the amount of oil produced, AFP quoted Kiinov as saying. Kazakhstan is already home to the massive onshore Tengiz oilfield, which contains from six to nine billion barrels of oil, one of the 10 largest oilfields in the world. According to an agreement between Kazakhstan and Agip KCO, shareholders were due to reveal the commercial reserves of Kashagan. Agip KCO brings together Italian group Eni, anglo-Dutch group Shell, U.S. super-major Exxonmobil, British group BG, Phillips Petroleum of the United States, Japanese firm Inpex and Totalfinaelf of France. CNA/www.caspian.ru *** INTERVIEW-Russia LUKOIL sees huge Caspian oil output growth By Dmitry Zhdannikov BAKU, June 4 (Reuters) - Russia's largest oil firm LUKOIL said on Tuesday it would invest billions of dollars in the oil-rich Caspian Sea over the next two decades with the eventual goal of getting a third of its output from the region. LUKOIL Overseas head Andrey Kuzyaev told Reuters the firm was already the largest Russian investor in the region, which is believed to hold as much oil as the North Sea, although it is slightly behind Western majors like BP and ChevronTexaco. "The Caspian is now becoming our absolute overseas top priority. We see our output from this region at 30 percent of our total output by 2020," he said on the sidelines of an oil conference in Azerbaijan's capital Baku. "By that time we will have invested $12-$17 billion in our Caspian and Central Asian projects," said Kuzyaev, who manages LUKOIL's upstream assets from Venezuela to Egypt. LUKOIL, which produces 1.6 million barrels of oil a day mainly in Western Siberia, has been criticised by investors for slow production growth while its market peers' increases have been reaching double digits and boosting Russia's output for four consecutive years. It has countered by saying the situation would change as soon as its long-term investments in Russia's north and the Caspian turn into real oil, and pledged to almost double oil and natural gas output by 2010. "LUKOIL is a unique firm, which has projects in every lucrative area of the Caspian Sea, including the Azeri, Kazakh and Russian sectors. We count on a huge synergy effect," Kuzyaev said. LUKOIL said in May it had drilled six positive exploration wells on its four fields in the Russian sector of the Caspian and that hydrocarbon reserves there, mainly natural gas, might be one billion tonnes of oil equivalent. In Kazakhstan LUKOIL owns 15 percent of the huge Karachaganak gas condensate field, operated by British BG and Italy's ENI. It also has, together with BP, a five percent stake in the mammoth Tengiz oil field, operated by Chevron. In Azerbaijan the firm owns 10 percent of the country's biggest oil producing offshore field, Chirag, and another five percent in Chakh-Deniz gas project. Both fields, majority owned by BP, will eventually be aiming to supply Turkey. LUKOIL LOOKS FOR MORE LICENCES Kuzyaev said the company was now aiming at more expansion in Kazakhstan in tandem with foreign majors which recently started to leave Azerbaijan after only two big projects yielded oil in the past decade. "Azerbaijan is the only Caspian region producing offshore oil so far, and it has a transport infrastructure. But investors must have both today and tomorrow in their portfolios, so Kazakhstan is the future," he said. Kuzyaev said he was aware of Kazakh government plans to approve a national offshore oil strategy and put a number of lucrative blocks out to tender. So far Kazakh offshore work has been limited to the ENI-led exploration of Kashagan field, which experts say might be the world's biggest oil find since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. "We are holding talks with the Kazakh government. We have told them we are particularly interested in acquiring new exploration licenses," Kuzyaev said. He said the firm was especially interested in Kurmangazy oil block, which neighbours Kashagan, and should be split between Russian and Kazakh firms after the two states agreed on bilateral division of the sea earlier this year. Kuzyaev said oil and gas transportation from the Caspian remained an obstacle but that LUKOIL was not rushing to enter the region's multiple pipeline projects. LUKOIL has, together with BP, a 12.5 percent stake in the Caspian pipeline consortium (CPC), which has been shipping large volumes of Kazakh crude to the Russian Black Sea port of Novorossisk since 2001. LUKOIL had said it would participate in the U.S.-backed Baku-Ceyhan pipeline project to ship Azeri crude to Turkey, before withdrawing some support earlier this year. Experts said the move was influenced by the Russian government, which opposes the project despite rapprochement with the United States after the September 11 attacks. "We have not said our final yes, or no (to Baku-Ceyhan). We are waiting," Kuzyaev said. |