Atyrau Oil & Gas
New Technologies for Oil and Gas Production Stimulation from Zirax Company
#2 (86), April 2014 special issueZirax Company is one of the leading CIS producers and suppliers of well-killing fluids and acid solutions. A wide range of solutions for killing of wells based on pure synthetic salts of different density, as well as acid solutions based on synthetic hydrochloric acid for wells flowrate stimulation allows to solve effectively all the issues in this sphere
ASTEL: Being Online Onshore and Offshore
#2 (86), April 2014 special issueSeaTel USAT24 System is an offshore transceiving stabilized Ku-range antenna with the diameter of 60 cm. The system is compatible with the modems of leading international manufacturers: GILAT (Sky Edge 1 и 2), iDirect, Eastar, HUGHES (HNS), VIASAT.
Technology Service: Outsourced Services
#2 (86), April 2014 special issueNowadays about 90% of successful foreign companies practice such an innovative business approaches as outsourcing. Unfortunately, there is no such accurate data for Kazakhstan, but it is obvious that they are much lower. However, this figure grows every year. Indeed, the international experience shows: the future belongs to the outsourcing.
Twenty Years on a Quill Tip
#2 (86), April 2014 special issueThe Abdi company has no rivals when it comes to the stationery products industry. Its share takes up a fifth of the Kazakhstani market, assessed at 50 billion tenge. There are corporate sales departments in each of the company’s 19 Kazakhstan branches. Firstly, this allows the company to always be next to the client, and secondly, makes it possible to keep the same prices for stationary supplies in any city. When a large corporation has the same contract with each of its branches, subdivisions and subsidiaries, it can reduce its office budget by up to 30%.
Twenty Years of Joint Work
#2 (80), April 2013 special issueTengizchevroil JV marks the 20th anniversary of its activity. On April 6, 1993, in Almaty the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev and the chairman of the board of Chevron Corporation Kenneth Derr signed a 40-year agreement on forming Tengizchevroil LLP. The joint venture was established between Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc. and Tengizneftegas Production Association. Since then, for two decades already ТCO is one of the leaders in the country’s oil and gas industry.
Working for the benefit of society
#2 (80), April 2013 special issueThe North Caspian consortium, developing the huge Kashagan field in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea, is preparing for the start of commercial production. There is no doubt that the Kashagan oil will become the basis for energy security of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the 21st century. When we talk about the Consortium, we mean not just multi-billion investments and innovative technologies, but also the Consortium’s social commitments in the region it operates.
Karachaganak: Operation Results of the Year
#2 (80), April 2013 special issueKarachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. (KPO), developing the Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field in Western Kazakhstan, has announced the operation results of 2012. Last year KPO produced 139.5 million barrels of oil equivalent of stabilised and unstabilised liquid hydrocarbons, gas and fuel gas. 8.6 million cubic meters of sour dry gas were re-injected to maintain reservoir pressure, which is approximately 49% of the total volume of produced gas.The volume of gas flaring was a mere 0.13% of the total volume of gas produced. More than 1 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions have been eliminated. As a result of KPO’s efforts to substitute foreign specialists, today, local employees make up 93% of the total staff.
PetroKazakhstan - a Corporate Citizen in the Republic
#2 (80), April 2013 special issueThe yield of light oil products also increased. During 2012 the experts of PetroKazakhstan Oil Products made extensive efforts to improve the quality of refinery products. The preparation for the Shymkent refinery modernization program to cover the construction of 7 new process units and the reconstruction of 3 existing process units is ongoing. The purpose of the Refinery Modernization and Reconstruction Project is to start producing oil products to Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards and to increase the conversion depth and the yield of light oil products.
Sakhalin Island: A Success Story
#2 (80), April 2013 special issueSakhalin Island, Russia: recently, this place has gone through a dramatic transformation that would seem unimaginable just fifteen years ago. This island with an ailing economy, located far away from the traditional of economic and industrial centres, has turned into a showcase of state-of-the-art technology, innovation and rapid socioeconomic development.
AtyrauNefteMash LLP: Reliability of Equipment and Reputation
#2 (80), April 2013 special issueThe history of AtyrauNefteMash mechanical engineering plant started during the first quarter of the last century, when a new plant was established on the basis of mechanical workshops previously used to service waterborne and railway transport. This new plant launched production of equipment for petroleum operations.
Highly efficient technologies for enhancing oil recovery and wells workover
#2 (80), April 2013 special issueThe total forecasted recoverable resources of hydrocarbons in Kazakhstan are estimated at 17 billion tons, of them 8 billion tons fall on offshore fields. The main growth of oil production in the country will be provided by offshore fields, while the majority of oil fields being developed on land have already reached their maximal level of annual production. So, further growth of onshore production is connected basically with intensification of Теngiz and Каrachaganak fields’ development. Therefore, the situation with the development of the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian Sea is a key one for Kazakhstan.
Reliable Communication at the Islands
#2 (80), April 2013 special issueTelecommunication company ASTEL has been providing communication services at the North Caspian project’s facilities, including artificial islands for eight years already. The company’s services meet both international standards and high demands of the operator of Kashagan project. The work at the legendary Kashagan has become a stimulus for ASTEL to accustom international standards, develop a wide spectrum of services, introduce ISO and OHSAS certification and continuously improve the professional skills of its employees.Kirill Yelantsev, ASTEL’s Head of International Projects Division, shares the nuances of work with NCPOC in an interview to Petroleum.
Tengizchevroil: 2011 Year in Review
#2 (74), April 2012 special issueLast year Tengizchevroil focused on celebrating the successes and growth it has experienced as a country and company during the first 20 years of statehood and since oil was first produced in Tengiz in April 1991.
Kashagan: Giant Project for the Benefit of Kazakhstan
#2 (74), April 2012 special issueThis is precisely how zhyrau Kashagan Kurzhimanuly, after whom one of the world’s largest oil field was named, wanted to see his land. After a difficult and sorrowful life, could he have imagined that, many decades later, his name would be linked with the country's hopes and aspirations to join the ranks of the world's leading suppliers of energy resources?
AtyrauNefteMash LLP: Reliability of Equipment and Reputation
#2 (74), April 2012 special issueThe history of AtyrauNefteMash mechanical engineering plant started during the first quarter of the last century, when a new plant was established on the basis of mechanical workshops previously used to service waterborne and railway transport. This new plant launched production of equipment for petroleum operations.
Subsoil Users' Forum: Lessons of the Past, Conclusions for the Future
#2 (74), April 2012 special issueGRATA Law Firm will organize the IV AnnualForum of subsoil users in Kazakhstan. The event will take place on 4 May 2012 in Almaty. The topic of the Forum will be "Crisis: Lessons from the past, conclusions for the future".