Asset Report
Kazakhstan North Ustyurt exploration basin
Report summary
Only a handful of discoveries have been made to date in Kazakhstan's North Ustyurt basin. These discoveries have been in two plays; the Jurassic Oil play in the west and the Tertiary Gas play in the east. Due to the modest yet-to-find resources in both plays and challenging fiscal terms, the basin offers limited potential for value creation. Total entered the basin in 2012 and was later joined by Maersk. However wells drilled in 2015 targeting the Jurassic Oil and Tertiary Gas plays were unsuccessful and both companies exited in 2016.
Table of contents
- Key facts
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Summary and key issues
- Key issues include:
- Location maps
- Participation
- Geology
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Exploration
- Wells drilled and success rates
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Reserves and resources
- Volumes discovered
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Development
- Yet-to-find costs and underlying development assumptions
- Costs
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Fiscal and regulatory
- Licensing
- Fiscal terms
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Economic analysis
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TYP and outlook economics
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Prospect economics
- Jurassic Oil
- Tertiary gas
- Expected monetary value (EMV)
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Prospect economics
- Full cycle basin economics
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TYP and outlook economics
Tables and charts
This report includes 31 images and tables including:
- Key play data
- Assumptions
- Price Assumptions
- Value creation versus investment (TYP period)
- Value creation versus investment (outlook)
- Exploration wells by play
- Licensed exploration acreage
- Expiry forecast of current licences
- Key play characteristics
- Summary of discovery and development costs
- Exploration and appraisal spend
- Commerciality index:
- Drilling activity by well type
- Discoveries by licence year and drilling year
- Top discoveries (TYP period)
- Jurassic Oil
- Reserves and resources: Table 2
- Tertiary Gas
- Reserves and resources: Table 3
- Jurassic Oil
- Tertiary Gas
- Typical fiscal terms
- Value creation, spend and volume discovered
- Economic analysis: Image 2
- Full cycle economic analysis
- Jurassic Oil
- Tertiary Gas
- Unit value of potential discoveries
- Prospect breakeven prices
- Unit value of potential discoveries
- Economic analysis: Image 6
What's included
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