Energy Minister: Orenburg plant in Russia restarts gas imports from Kazakhstan field
Kazakhstan's Energy Minister said that the Russian Orenburg gas plant was damaged by a drone strike on Sunday. It has since resumed receiving natural gases from Kazakhstan's Karachaganak gas field.
As part of Kyiv’s campaign to destroy Russian energy infrastructure, the strike on Orenburg, located approximately 1,700 km (1.056 miles east of Ukraine), marked the first disruption known for Western oil majors that operate in Russia. The Orenburg incident highlighted the vulnerability of energy assets across the border to the growing conflict.
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The oil and gas condensate production at Karachaganak is a major field developed in Kazakhstan by a consortium of international companies including U.S. giant Chevron, Shell, and Eni.
Erlan Akkenzhenov, Kazakhstan's Energy Minister told reporters in Astana that the Orenburg plant had resumed receiving gas.
Raw gas is delivered from Karachaganak to Orenburg's processing plant. The oil and gas output of Karachaganak are closely related, so the field cannot produce much oil when its gas production drops.
According to two anonymous sources, the output at Karachaganak fell on Monday to between 25,000 and 28,000 metric tons (196,500 barrels a day), down from its usual 35,000 to 35,500 tons. Reporting by Tamara Vaal, Writing by Lidia Kel in Melbourne and Vladimir Soldatkin, Editing by Tom Hogue & Louise Heavens
(source: Reuters)