In Kazakhstan Oil Production Was Restored after Spring Floods
Oil production in Kazakhstan after the large-scale floods that occurred in the spring is carried out according to the schedule, the plan is met by almost 100%.
This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of National Economy of the country N. Baibazarov.
Theses of N. Baibazarova:
- For oil production, we go according to the schedule – the plan is 99.9%;
- The minimum reduction in the level of production was associated with the deposits that were in the Atyrau region;
- Today, the economy of Kazakhstan is developing stably, the growth rate in individual sectors exceeds the indicators for similar periods of 2023, but, of course, there are industries whose growth rates have decreased;
- If we say, according to the results of 5 months, the field of trade was most badly affected;
- This is largely due to the large -scale floods that happened in our country this spring;
- More than half of the regions were in this state when business activity fell, the infrastructure suffered, respectively, trade, logistics relations were violated;
- The same reasons influenced the industry of transport and communications, which, too, can be said, reduced the growth rate.
Recall, on April 18, 2024, the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan reported that in the Atyrau and Aktobe regions of Kazakhstan, against the backdrop of large-scale floods, 634 oil wells suspended the work. The total loss of oil production was 16 thousand tons.
Specialists spent there:
- pumping water,
- filling with soil,
- deborification and sealing of wells.
According to April 18, production was suspended on 493 wells:
- In the Aktobe region, 489 wells: Actobemunaygaz – 440 wells, KMK Munai – 25 wells, Ada Oil company – 24 wells;
- In the Atyrau region, 4 wells were suspended.
On April 17, 2024, the press service of the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan after a meeting of the Minister of Energy of the Republic A. Satkalieva with the CEO of CPC N. Gorbanem stated that the Caspian pipeline consortium (CPC) makes maximum efforts to preserve the supply plan of Kazakhstani oil for export in Atyrau areas, ensuring the continuous operation of the Tengiz – Novorossiysk pipeline.
3 of the 4th CPC facilities in Kazakhstan (oil pumping stations Tengiz, Isatay and Kurmangazy) were not at risk of flooding.
However, due to the forecast of increasing the water level in the river Urals in the area of Atyrau CPC-K special equipment in cooperation with excavators and dump trucks that arrived on April 15 from the Astrakhan region continued the construction of anti-flood fortifications to protect the facilities of CPC, KazTransoyle, Karachaganak Petroleum B.V. Operation
On March 29, 2024, the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan reported a temporary suspension of gas supply in some settlements.
Due to the floods that began in March 2024, an emergency regime of a local scale was declared in 10 regions of Kazakhstan. During this time, rescuers in total evacuated more than 119 thousand people.
