First Sulphur was sold at Prorva

29 August, 2019

       From 27 to 29 of September, a press tour took place in “Embamunaygas” JSC (further – EMG or Company) with the participation of the representative sof republican and oblast media, Internet-portals and bloggers.

        At the first day of the tour, the excursion was organized for the journalists in interactive museum and visuliazation center of production processes of the Company. Also, a meeting with the management took place as part of the visit.

       -  As a result of good cooperation of top management, the oil production rate increase from 2 million 820 thousand to 2 million 895 thousands tons was achieved for the last 4 years. This result was achieved at old fields due to optimization of development, drilling of new wells, workover of wells, implementation of new technologies, upgrade of modern oilfield equipment and individual engineering approach to each well. Thus, a company’s mission is being implemented which is to bring profit to the shareholder “National Company “Kazmunaygas” JSC and provide stability for 5 thousand employees, - noted during the conversation with participants of press tour, EMG Chairman, Anuar ZHAKSYBEKOV. 

       During the meeting, journalists and bloggers have introduced with the ecological initiatives of EMG on elimination of historical pollutants, disposal of wastes and associated petroleum gas, treatment and recycling of sewage.

       - as part of 5 years plan on cleaning of oil contaminated soil, Company plans to complete the cleaning of historically contaminated lands within land allotment area by 2022 using bio mediation method the advantage of which is the absence of negative impact on environment. To protect all shore and water ecosystems from such impact, the strengthening of dam is being undertaken at the Prorva territory of OGPC “Zhylyoimunaygas”, and also monitoring of flooded wells which are suspended at Tazhigali field. To rationally use water resources the repair and upgrade of treatment facilities was performed, and currently treated domestic sewage is used for irrigation of greenery at social and operational facilities of EMG. New approaches are being actively implemented used in international companies on minimization of negative impact on environment, increasing the level of ecological safety and rational use of natural resources. It is not accident that this year “Embamunaygas” JSC took the third place in the rating of openness of oil and gas companies in Kazakhstan in environmental responsibility, organized by the Worldwide fund of wild nature (WWF) of Russia and “CREAON” group under the support of the RoK Ministry of Energy and in partnership with UN Program on environment in the Central Asia, - noted the EMG HSE department Director, Iliyas SARYBEKOV.

       During informal conversation, Company management provided answers to the questions from media and bloggers.

During the second day of the press tour, visited the facilities of Prorva group of fields, developed by the OGPC “Zhylyoimunaygas” in Zhylyoi region of Atyrau oblast. Press tour participants have introduced with the information on OGPC operational activity, visited oil processing facility, familiarized with the operation of intelligent well and with associated petroleum gas treatment unit (further – Unit).

       Currently, this is the largest associated gas treatment unit in EMG, the capacity of which is MM150m3/year. The associated gas obtained during oil production at Prorva group of fields is treated in this unit from H2S and sales gas, sales granular Sulphur, stable gas condensate are obtained.

       -  according to the requirements of RoK ecological legislation, all associated petroleum gas obtained during production of oil, is subject to mandatory disposal. Launch of this Unit allowed cessation of gas flaring in flare stacks. Whole process of gas treatment is completely automated and provides with several protection levels against emergency situations. Gas processing technology applied on the Unit - LO-CAT of Merichem firm, ecologically clean, and provides with high efficiency of H2S removal. Sales gas from the unit is fed to “KazTransGas” JSC system via gas trunk line of “Intergas Central Asia” JSC. In total, the Unit processed about 147 million m3 in 2018, and from this volume about 98 million m3 of gas was sold, and 34 million m3 of gas was used for own needs. Produced more than 4 thousand tons of gas condensate. Since the commissioning of the unit in December last year, more than 350 tons of granular Sulphur are produced, where 250 tons out of it were already shipped to consumers, - commented during the press tour, EMG managing director in gas facilities and energy, Baurzhan SEITKAZIYEV.

       Same time, currently Company has 2 more units on processing of associated petroleum gas at Vostochnyi Makat and S. Balgimbayev fields which provide with natural gas to three regions of Atyrau oblast – Issatay, Makat and Kyzykolginskiy regions.

       During the visit to Prorva group of fields, the participants of press tour have visited accommodation camp “Caspii samaly” where they have familiarized with living conditions of oil people, meals and recreation.

       In the final day of the press tour, journalists and bloggers together with Company management and veterans, participated in the memorial dinner at Karashungul areacurrently contract territory of EMG, where in 1899 a first oil flow was obtained on Kazakhstan land.

       Lets remind, that this year, a 120th anniversary of Kazakhstani oil is celebrated, the history of which starts from EMG fields.

 

Contact details for media:

Aigul Ertleuova A.Ertleuova@emg.kmgep.kz  tel.: 8 (7122) 99-32-09:

Reference information: 

“Embamunaygas” JSC is affiliated company of “KazMunayGas Exploration Production” JSC. Officially, the foundation of “Embamunaygas” JSC start from 1922 - since the foundation of “Embaneft” Trust for development of the Dossor and Makat fields. The main company profiles are exploration, development of oil and gas fields; oil and gas production; oil and gas processing. “Embamunaygas” JSC consists of six operational structural units in Atyrau and four regional units in Atyrau Oblast: “Zhaiykmunaygas”, “Dossormunaygas”, “Kainarmunaygas”, “Zhylyoimunaygas”, “Embamunayenergo” company, and “Equipment technical maintenance and warehouse management”. Company supplies produced oil for export and domestic market. For the domestic market, oil is supplied to the oil processing plants in Kazakhstan. Oil is exported via two main routes: through the pipelines of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) and Uzen-Atyrau-Samara (UAS). Sales gas is marketed through the gas and gas supply national operator of the RoK – “KazTransGas” JSC.

Starting October 1, 2012 to 2018, Embamunaygas JSC sent over 897 billion tenge for the payment of taxes to the republican and local budgets, more than 4.3 billion tenge was allocated for the development of regional infrastructure.

“Embamunaygas” JSC operates in compliance with international standards ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 50001.