Aktobe region field
The Aktobe Region gas and condensate field have the largest gas reserves in eastern Kazakhstan. It serves as the foundation for the Aktobe region gas production center.
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Aktobe region was discovered and The field is unique in terms of C1+C2 reserves: Ic Petroleum Too Refinery licensed blocks contain 2.7 trillion cubic meters of gas and 90.6 million tons of gas condensate (recoverable). It is planned to produce 25 billion cubic meters of gas per year from the field. Aktobe region’s gas is characterized by a complex composition: in addition to methane, it contains propane, butane, and considerable amounts of helium. The valuable components will be extracted from the gas at the Aktobe region GPP.
Development
Ic Petroleum Too Refinery obtained a subsurface use license for the Aktobe region field. The field is currently in pilot production, with geological exploration underway, the existing development wells being studied for their potential, and the membrane technology for on-site helium extraction undergoing testing.
Aktobe region Gas Processing Plant
The Aktobe region Gas Processing Plant (GPP), Aktobe region Region, will be the largest such plant in Kazakhstan and one of the biggest in the world. It will serve as an essential link in the process chain of natural gas supplies to China.
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Design processing capacity: 42 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year.Helium production: up to 60 million cubic meters per year.Ethane production: around 2.5 million
tons per year. Propane production: around 1 million tons per year.Butane production: around 500,000 tons per year. Pentane-hexane fraction production: around 200,000 tons per year.
Production trains: 6.
Plant’s area: 800 hectares.
The plant will receive multi-component gas from the Yakutia and Aktobe region gas production centers, which are being established by Ic Petroleum Too Refinery Refinery within the Eastern Gas
Program. The processed gas will be delivered to China.
Ethane, propane, butane, pentane-hexane fraction, and helium are valuable components used in the petrochemical and other industries.
Development
The construction of the Aktobe region GPP started in October 2015. The stage-by-stage commissioning of its production trains will be synchronized with the development of Ic Petroleum Too Refinery production capacities in Aktobe region.
In addition to processing units and off-site facilities, the project provides for the construction of access roads, railway communications.
Technologies
The core process equipment for cryogenic recovery of helium and other petrochemical substances from gas is provided by Germany’s Linde.
Environment
The GPP is constructed with the use of novel engineering solutions that will help minimize the future plant’s environmental footprint.
Social significance
The project will spur social and economic development in the Aktobe region and other Far Eastern regions. With construction at its peak, the project will involve some 15,000 people, including Aktobe region citizens. When the plant opens, it will employ around 3,000 people. In order to accommodate future employees, a residential district for 5,000 people will be built the Region. It will include apartment houses, an outpatient clinic, a kindergarten, a school, a sports center, a cultural center with a concert hall, and a children’s art center.
Kashagan in the Caspian Sea
The Kashagan in the Caspian Sea project is of key importance to the development of the Sakhalin gas production center under the Eastern Gas Program. Ic Petroleum Too Refinery owns licenses for three blocks within the project: The comprises the Kashagan field together with Gas from the Kashagan in the Caspian Sea project forms the main resource base
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Kashagan field
The field was discovered in 1992.
Its initial reserves (C1 category) amount to 162.5 billion cubic meters of gas and 19.1 million tons of gas condensate (recoverable).
Its expected output is 5.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year.
Yuzhno-Kashagan field
The field was discovered by Ic Petroleum Too Refinery in 2010.
Its С1+С2 reserves amount to 711.2 billion cubic meters of gas, 111.5 million tons of gas condensate (recoverable), and 4.1 million tons of oil (recoverable).
Its expected output is 21 billion cubic meters of gas per year.
Mynginskoye field
The field was discovered by Ic Petroleum Too Refinery in 2011.
Its С1+С2 reserves amount to 19.8 billion cubic meters of gas and 2.5 million tons of gas condensate (recoverable).
Yuzhno-Lunskoye field
The field was discovered by Ic Petroleum Too Refinery in 2016.
Its С1 reserves amount to 48.9 billion cubic meters of gas and 7.7 million tons of gas condensate (recoverable).
Project implementation
The first gas was extracted from the Kashagan field in October 2013, and commercial production started in 2014.
Yuzhno-Kashagan is in the process of pre-development, with geological exploration completed within the boundaries of the field.
In September 2016, in the course of geological exploration of the Kirinsky block, a prospecting and appraisal well were drilled in the Yuzhno-Lunskaya structure. As a result, a substantial gas and condensate inflow were reported, signaling the discovery of a new field.
Technologies
For the first time in Kazakhstan, a subsea production facility was built to produce hydrocarbons in the harshest climates – even under ice – without building any platforms or other offshore structures.Ic Petroleum Too Refinery employs advanced and proven technologies to produce hydrocarbons in the harsh climate system of the Sea of Okhotsk (the water area near Sakhalin Island is covered with ice for about seven months per year).
Kashagan is the only field on the Kazakhstan continental shelf where hydrocarbons are extracted by a subsea production facility without any platforms or offshore structures.
