Asset Report
Kazakhstan Precaspian exploration basin
Report summary
The Kazakh sector of the Precaspian Basin covers an area of 500,000 square kilometres and is by far the most prolific basin in Kazakhstan. Over 200 fields have been discovered to date, including the super-giant oil and gas megaprojects: Kashagan (2000), Tengiz and Karachaganak (both in 1979). These account for most of the country's production. The offshore sector of the basin attracted strong interest from the industry following the Kashagan discovery but has failed to live-up to the hype. Recent exploration success has been limited, especially offshore where the last discovery was made in 2008. Nonetheless, this is where the largest prospects are thought to remain. The basin offers limited potential for value creation. This is a result of modest prospective resources and various challenges that increase costs - geography, logistics, very shallow water offshore (frozen in winter) and deep, high-pressure reservoirs for the largest prospects, typically with sour gas.
Table of contents
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Summary of commercial outlook
- Challenges:
- Wells drilled and success rates
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Prospective resources by play
- Mesozoic Onshore
- Paleozoic Onshore
- Paleosoic Shelf
- Prospective resource costs and underlying development assumptions
- Prospect economics -Mesozoic Onshore
- Prospect economics - Paleozoic onshore
- Prospect economics - Paleozoic shelf
- Full-cycle basin economics
- Licensing
- Fiscal terms
Tables and charts
This report includes 26 images and tables including:
- Exploration history map
- Top 10 discoveries
- Current acreage holders
- Mesozoic Onshore
- Paleozoic Onshore
- Paleozoic Shelf
- Summary of discovery and development costs
- Unit value of potential discoveries
- Breakeven price of exploration
- Mesozoic onshore
- Unit value of potential discoveries
- Breakeven price of exploration
- Paleozoic onshore
- Unit value of potential discoveries
- Breakeven price of exploration
- Paleozoic shelf
- Typical fiscal terms - Paleozoic Onshore and Shelf plays
- Exploration plays map
- Key play characteristics
- Creaming curve
- Prospective resource summary
- Creaming curve
- Prospective resource summary
- Creaming curve
- Prospective resource summary
What's included
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