Kazakhstan needs new ways to export oil to international markets: if the plans to increase production will be realized, the available bandwidth is obviously not enough, writes the newspaper The Wall Street Journal, referring to the top managers of oil company Chevron.

Kazakhstan expects the doubling of oil production in 2020 and is preparing to enter the top ten world producers of energy. However, because the country had no access to international sea routes, the bulk of the exported oil passes in transit through Russia.

“Kazakhstan expects to increase oil production by at least 1.5 million barrels a day within the next 15 years, and therefore it requires new, dedicated and reliable way of exporting oil - and they urgently need,” - said vice-president of Chevron Development of business and transport Ian MacDonald. According to him, the capacity of pipelines, shutting oil from Kazakhstan, shall be increased by at least 1 million bpd.

authorities have developed a new strategy for the development of means of communication - the so-called Kazakhstan Caspian Transport System. As part of the project pipeline linking western Kazakhstan with the new port on the Caspian Sea, where oil will be delivered to Azerbaijan for further transportation in Turkey.

cost of this transportation network, according to preliminary estimates, is $ 3 billion, and the project is still at the initial stages. Many experts doubt that the transportation system will be put into operation in 2013, as planned by the Government of Kazakhstan. And in 2012, will begin delivery of the giant Kashagan oil field, which significantly increase the total oil production in Kazakhstan.

Kashagan called the largest discovery in the oil industry over the past 30 years, but this project is the only large deposits in the world without a dedicated export pipeline, writes the WSJ.

At the present time in Kazakhstan there are two major pipeline networks: Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which connects the field in Western Kazakhstan (Tengiz, Karachaganak) to the Russian Black Sea coast (Southern Terminal near Novorossiysk Ozereyevka), and oil pipeline Atyrau-Samara .

flow capacity of the CTC will be doubled by 2013, also planned expansion of Atyrau-Samara “, but even then Kazakhstan will be able to bang on the pipes are not more than 1 million bpd. That is, from 400 thousand b /d to 500 thousand b /d will have to export by rail or by tankers, and many oil companies prefer to avoid these costly methods.

Kazakhstan needs new ways to export oil to international markets: if the plans to increase production will be realized, the available bandwidth is obviously not enough, writes the newspaper The Wall Street Journal, referring to the top managers of oil company Chevron.

Kazakhstan expects the doubling of oil production in 2020 and is preparing to enter the top ten world producers of energy. However, because the country had no access to international sea routes, the bulk of the exported oil passes in transit through Russia.

“Kazakhstan expects to increase oil production by at least 1.5 million barrels a day within the next 15 years, and therefore it requires new, dedicated and reliable way of exporting oil - and they urgently need,” - said vice-president of Chevron Development of business and transport Ian MacDonald. According to him, the capacity of pipelines, shutting oil from Kazakhstan, shall be increased by at least 1 million bpd.

authorities have developed a new strategy for the development of means of communication - the so-called Kazakhstan Caspian Transport System. As part of the project pipeline linking western Kazakhstan with the new port on the Caspian Sea, where oil will be delivered to Azerbaijan for further transportation in Turkey.

cost of this transportation network, according to preliminary estimates, is $ 3 billion, and the project is still at the initial stages. Many experts doubt that the transportation system will be put into operation in 2013, as planned by the Government of Kazakhstan. And in 2012, will begin delivery of the giant Kashagan oil field, which significantly increase the total oil production in Kazakhstan.

Kashagan called the largest discovery in the oil industry over the past 30 years, but this project is the only large deposits in the world without a dedicated export pipeline, writes the WSJ.

At the present time in Kazakhstan there are two major pipeline networks: Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which connects the field in Western Kazakhstan (Tengiz, Karachaganak) to the Russian Black Sea coast (Southern Terminal near Novorossiysk Ozereyevka), and oil pipeline Atyrau-Samara .

flow capacity of the CTC will be doubled by 2013, also planned expansion of Atyrau-Samara “, but even then Kazakhstan will be able to bang on the pipes are not more than 1 million bpd. That is, from 400 thousand b /d to 500 thousand b /d will have to export by rail or by tankers, and many oil companies prefer to avoid these costly methods.