据俄罗斯油气网努尔苏丹报道，哈萨克斯坦生态、地质和自然资源部长马克祖姆·米尔扎卡利耶夫日前在努尔苏丹会见了壳牌公司哈萨克斯坦分公司主管奥利维尔·拉扎尔，并邀请壳牌公司考虑投资里海盆地地质勘探的可能性。

米尔扎卡利耶夫说：“我日前会见了壳牌公司哈萨克斯坦分公司主管拉扎尔。我邀请壳牌公司积极合作。我们同意考虑在里海盆地和缺乏研究的盆地投资地质勘探的可能性，包括‘欧亚项目。”

据拉扎尔所说，双方决定成立一个联合工作组。最初，对这个项目感兴趣的公司还有括KMG-Eurasia、俄罗斯石油公司、阿塞拜疆国家石油公司、NEOS geosol、意大利阿吉普里海公司。

根据欧亚项目，哈萨克斯坦计划在里海盆地15公里深处进行研究和钻探。这个项目的估计成本为5亿美元，预计将在今年年内实施。

根据地质学家的说法，在里海盆地的中部，可能有6到7个盐下构造，其可采储量超过2亿吨石油，每桶石油成本超过20美元。

哈萨克斯坦共有大约200个油气田，总储量估计为110 - 120亿吨。这些资源中近70%集中在哈萨克斯坦西部地区，主要的大油气田有卡沙干、卡拉恰加纳克和田吉兹。

李峻 编译自 俄罗斯油气网

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Kazakhstan invites Shell to invest in Caspian exploration

Neftegaz.RU. Kazakhstan’s ecology, geology and natural resources minister Magzum Mirzagaliev met with Shell Kazakhstan country chair Olivier Lazare and invited the company to consider the possibility of investing in geological exploration in the Caspian basin.

“I met with the head of Shell Kazakhstan Olivier Lazare. I invited Shell to actively cooperate,” Mirzagaliyev wrote on his Twitter page. “We agreed to consider the possibilities of investing in geological exploration in the Caspian basin and poorly studied basins, including the ‘Eurasia’ project,” the minister added.

According to him, the parties decided to create a joint working group. Initially, the interested companies included: KMG-Eurasia, Russia’s Rosneft, Azerbaijan’s SOCAR, NEOS Geosolutions, Italy’s Agip Caspian Sea, however, a year later Rosneft and NEOS Geosolutions left the group and were replaced by Shell.

According to the Eurasia project, it is planned to conduct research and drilling at a depth of 15 km in the Caspian basin. The estimated cost of the project is $500 million and is expected to be implemented in 2020.

According to geologists, in the central part of the Caspian depression there can be six to seven subsalt structures with recoverable reserves of more than 200 million tonnes of oil and a cost of more than $20 per barrel.

In total, about 200 oil and gas fields are located in Kazakhstan, the total reserves of which are estimated at 11-12 billion tonnes. Almost 70% of these resources are concentrated in the western regions of Kazakhstan, the main oil veins are Kashagan, Karachaganak and Tengiz.