Karachaganak Oil and Gas Field

Operator: ENI / BG Group
Country: Kazakhstan
Location: Western Kazakhstan
Production start:
Partners: Eni (co-operator 32,5%), BG Group (co-operator 32,5%), Chevron (20%) and Lukoil (15%),
Type: Oil / Gas
Estimated Reserves: 5 bboe
Production Volume: In 2010, production of the Karachaganak field averaged 228 kbbl/d of liquids and 812 mmcf/d of natural gas

Situated onshore in the western part of the country, Karachaganak is a giant onshore hydrocarbon deposit that produces oil, condensate and natural gas, with recoverable reserves estimated at 5 billion boe.
The operations carried out by the Karachaganak Petroleum Operating BV (KPO) consortium are regulated by a 40-year Production Sharing Agreement that expires in 2037.
Oil is exported via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium Oil Pipeline
Gas is sold to Gazprom in Russia, and is processed at the Orenburg Gas Processing Plant which is 130 kilometers away

**Saipem:** Civil works, infrastructures and mechanical works related to a production unit and gas re-injection facilities, a process plant and a 635 km x 24” pipeline with pumping station and terminal
**Petrofac:** Karachaganak 4th stabilisation and sweetening train
- Engineering services contract
- Detailed engineering, procurement, construction management and commissioning support
Phase III
- **Petrofac:** Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) study

1979 - Karachaganak Oil And Gas Field discovered
1997 - Final Production Sharing Agreement signed
2003 - First liquids from new Karachaganak facilities
2004 - Phase II Karachaganak development completed
2004 - First exports via Novorossiysk on the Black Sea
2006 - Oil exports commenced via the Atyrau Samara Oil Pipeline
2011 - the Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V consortium signed an agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan for entry of the national oil company KazMunaiGaz (KMG) into the consortium
2015 - Gas sales agreement with Gazprom extended until 2038

Approximately two-thirds of the liquids produced are stabilised at the Karachaganak Processing Complex (KPC) – with a capacity of over 150,000 barrels/day – before they are sent to western markets through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium Oil Pipeline and, since 2006, also through the Atyrau-Samara pipeline, which is connected to the Russian export system. The non-stabilised liquids and the gas that is not re-injected into the deposits are sold on the local Russian market through the Orenburg terminal.

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