Output at Karachaganak not yet fully restoredProduction at the Karachaganak field has not yet been fully restored following a disruption tied to an incident at Russia's Orenburg gas processing plant, KazMunayGas CEO Askhat Khasenov said Tuesday."Production is continuing. The current restrictions are a holdover from earlier disruptions. We've managed to bring output back up to about 28,000 tonnes per day, down from the usual 31,000," Khasenov told reporters on the sidelines of parliament in Astana.According to earlier reports, the output at Karachaganak, one of Kazakhstan's largest oil and gas fields, was cut by 9,000 tonnes per day on June 26 due to the Orenburg plant incident.The reduction in output at the Karachaganak field following the halt in gas intake at the Orenburg processing plant is not disrupting fuel supplies on Kazakhstan's domestic market, the Energy Ministry said Monday.The raw gas produced at Karachaganak is processed at Gazprom-owned Orenburg plant, and some of the processed gas returns to Kazakhstan as commercial and liquefied petroleum gas. Raw gas is a byproduct of oil and gas condensate production at the Karachaganak field.The Energy Ministry said on June 24 that Kazakhstan had rerouted gas deliveries and was covering its fuel needs from other sources.Gazprom and KazMunayGas have worked together since 2002 through the equally-owned joint venture KazRosGaz, which buys gas from Karachaganak, has it processed at Orenburg and sells it to buyers in Kazakhstan and Russia. A long-term purchase deal between operator Karachaganak Petroleum Operating BV and KazRosGaz was signed in 2007 and extended in 2015 through 2038 for volumes of up to 9 billion cubic meters a year.Karachaganak ranks among the world's largest fields, holding 1.2 billion tonnes of oil and 1.35 trillion cubic meters of gas. (ICE ALMATY)

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