Sunday, October 9, 2016

Vitol wins right to export Kazakhstan share of Kashagan output



Vitol has been the dominant force of Kazakhstan's oil exports for over a decade, taking barrels in particular to Russian ports and shipping them to european refineries.
The country is now making ready to start business output at Kashagan - one of the world's biggest discoveries of the beyond decades - in October following years of delays caused by the mission's technical complexity.
Kashagan's output might be modest on the begin at among 50,000 and 1 million tonnes this 12 months, three million to five million tonnes next year however growing to 7 million tonnes in 2018, Kazakh electricity Minister Kanat Bozumbayev stated in can also.
the first section is designed to provide as much as 20 million tonnes at its peak, probably growing to as a lot as 50 million tonnes if new investment is authorized.
Kazakhstan holds sixteen.88 percent in Kashagan thru KMG Kashagan (KMG), a subsidiary of Kazakh national oil organization Kazmunaygaz .
The Kashagan consortium also consists of Eni, Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, total, China's CNPC and Japan's Inpex.

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