BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jul. 17
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Joint venture of Petrofac and Kazakhstan’s Isker company to oversee modernization of existing infrastructure at Kazakhstan’s North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC), NCOC official told Trend.
North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) operates major Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan’s Atyrau region.
The NCOC official said that the company signed the agreement on engineering, procurement, construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning of company’s water treating facilities on July 1, 2020.
The official said that these water treating facilities are designed to treat water from Complex Oil and Gas Treatment Unit which goes to the liquid technological waste disposal site, as well as to monitor the content of pollutants in the water, in particular, iron, oil, hydrogen sulfide and suspended solid particles, taking notice that they meet the norms approved by Kazakhstan’s legislation.
“The scope of work within the agreement includes both the installation of equipment at new facilities and the modernization of existing facilities, including the modification of Complex Oil and Gas Treatment Unit equipment for full integration,” the official said.
The Kashagan field is one of three largest oil fields located in the northern part of the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea. Its recoverable reserves reach approximately 9-13 billion barrels (1-2 billion tons) of oil.
The first commercial oil production started at Kashagan in 2016. The project operator North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) shipped the first million tons of oil for export in early 2017. NCOC has reached a record-breaking volume of oil extraction at the field (390,000-400,000 barrels a day) in 2019.
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