Oil production declines over Mangistau gas pipeline rupture.

22/9 Tass 246

ASTANA, September 22 (Itar-Tass) - The oil fields owned by
MangistauMunaiGaz report a decline in the oil production by 200 tonnes
over the incident at the gas pipeline of Intergas Central Asia JSC, local
mass media said with reference to MangistauMunaiGaz Director-General Serik
Aydarbayev.
During an emergency meeting in the Mangistau region he said
MAEK-Kazatomprom cut electric power to oil fields over the pipeline
rupture.
At present, water injection to underground reservoirs was fully
suspended over electric power cuts, Aydarbayev said.
According to earlier reports, the authorities of Kazakhstan's
Mangistau region is conducting the talks with Turkmenistan on increasing
gas supplies after the accident at the gas pipeline owned by Intergas
Central Asia JSC.
The head of the regional administration, Krymbek Kusherbayev, said the
incident raises serious concerns. The region may face electric power
shortage, as MAEK-Kazatomprom has already reported the gas deficit of
85,000 cubic meters.
MangistauMunaiGaz is one of the Central Asian republic's biggest
enterprises that accounts for 9 percent of Kazakhstan's total oil
production and 31 percent of the region's oil output. It develops fifteen
fields, including two large ones - Kalamkas and Zhetybai.
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