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[Vinyard]

Hallo,

ich möchte euch hier kurz auf die Eckpunkte in Sachen Öl- und Gasvorkommen des Landes Turmenistan aufmerksam machen. Sehr interessant wie ich finde.

Info´s bei Wikipedia:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C3%B6lgewinnung_am_Kaspisch…

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan


Turkmenistan may have up to 250 bln tons of oil equivalent

PARIS, May 29 (RIA Novosti) - Turkmenistan could have some 200-250 billion metric tons of oil equivalent, the head of a geological research institute at the Central Asian country's state-run corporation said on Friday.

"Reserves have so far been estimated at 44.55 billion metric tons of oil equivalent but they could be far higher, possibly 200-250 billion metric tons," Odek Odekov said at the 2009 CIS Oil and Gas Summit in the French capital.

He explained that Turkmenistan has around 10 to 15 giant fields, which could be developed and "therefore the figure of 200-250 billion metric tons does not look so fantastic."

Odekov said there were 11 promising blocs with reserves estimated at 18 billion metric tons of oil in the middle of Caspian offshore areas.

Investment in projects to develop the Caspian fields off Turkmenistan could reach $3.8 billion this year, a presidential energy official, Dovlet Atabayev, said.

He said the three foreign companies involved in Turkmen offshore projects - Petronas, Dragon Oil and Wintershall - had invested $2.2 billion last year against foreign investment of $0.8 billion in 2007.

"Capital investment is planned at $3.8 billion for 2009 under PSA agreements," Atabayev said, adding that talks with foreign partners were underway to increase investment.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20090529/155120634.html




Vielleicht können wir ja noch mehr nützliche Info´s zusammentragen.

Grüße

[Vinyard]

Tja, das mit dem Bild hat nicht geklappt; bin ich wohl noch zu grün hinter den Ohren....

[Coxos]

East-West Gas Pipeline of Turkmenistan: An Open End Tube
on 06 April, 2009
Ashgabat, 6 April 2009 (nCa) --- The recently announced plan of Turkmenistan to build a cross-country gas pipeline, connecting all the major Turkmen fields to a single network, is a powerful idea. It has the perfect ability to sink or sustain several inter-regional projects, provide cushion against any partners that may default for political or economic reasons, and spread the prosperity evenly to the whole country.
Turkmenistan has named it East-West Gas Pipeline.
Let’s look at some aspects of the concept and the reaction it has attracted from certain quarters.
The Media Din
The Russian and the western media, still mired in their zero-sum mentality, have painted the project in negative tones.
The Russian media came up with the idea that an East-West pipeline could somehow amount to betrayal, leaving the possibility open for Nabucco to connect with Turkmen reserves.
The western media, by and large, dubbed the project as success of Russia in monopolizing the Turkmen gas reserves.
Whether their assertions are right or wrong, the crux of the matter is that both sides expressed their views under the deep rooted assumption that the sovereignty of Turkmenistan should be subject to the interests of either Russia or the so-called ‘West.’
Habitually making such noises probably satisfies the weird psychological cravings of some people but it is not possible to dignify this kind of trash as either objective reporting or levelheaded analysis.
The Project
A careful look at the tender notice published in the local media on 27 March 2009 gives some clues to the nature of the project.
The length of the pipeline, as mentioned in the tender notice, would be 800 to 1000 kilometers. It is understood that the pipe would start in Osman-Yoloton, the newly discovered cluster with possible gas reserves of up to 14 trillion cubic meters.
Where the pipe would terminate, is an open question. The fact that exact length has not been mentioned in the tender notice shows that the termination point may not have been decided as yet.
Here is the approximate distance from Osman-Yoloton to some likely termination points:
Turkmenbashy 900 kilometers
Kazakh border 1000 kilometers
Iran border 900 kilometers
Central Karakum 700 kilometers

(For measuring the distance, we have taken the points at Kazakh and Iranian border with Turkmenistan where the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway line will enter and leave the Turkmen territory)
It is quite possible that the pipe may split into two or three branches at some point, creating the possibility to send gas in different directions.
One can assume that the termination point(s) of the pipeline would be decided after further negotiations with some potential partners.
Turkmengaz, the state concern that has floated the tender, will accept the bids up to 27 June 2009. It means that the project may not actually start before the end of this year.
The capacity of the pipe would be 30 bcm (billion cubic meters). This is significant.
Pipe Capacity
The announced capacity gives some indications of the possibilities the pipe planners may have in their mind.
As far as Russian route is concerned, the pipe would bring 30 bcm to a convenient point for feeding either CAC (Central Asia-Centre) network or the yet-unborn Caspian Coastal Pipeline (Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan call it Prekaspiysky Pipeline).
However, the proposed capacity of the Caspian Coastal Pipeline (CCP), that will hug the Caspian coast and carry Turkmen and Kazakh gas to Russia and onward to Europe, is 20 bcm. This capacity could possibly be increased to 30 bcm if all sides agree.
Probably half of this capacity would be set aside for Kazakhstan, an equal partner in the project.
It means that even if CCP is built with 30 bcm capacity, all the gas brought by the East-West pipeline from Osman-Yoloton to western Turkmenistan cannot possibly be put into CCP.
Does it mean that the remaining volume – 15 to 20 bcm – would be fed into CAC?
As the things stand today, that would not be possible. CAC is already full to the brim and any more gas cannot be put into it without extensive rebuild and modernization. Although a quadrilateral agreement exists between Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia to bring the network back to its original capacity of about 90 bcm, implementation stage is still not in sight.
Moreover, there is a dedicated Daulatabat-Deryalyk pipeline that connects CAC with the second largest field of Turkmenistan. Even when CAC is revived to its former capacity, the Daulatabat-Deryalyk conduit should be able to serve most of the additional needs.
The Nabucco Question
The East-West pipeline actually brightens the chances for Nabucco. After satisfying the needs of the future CCP, some 10 to 15 bcm would be left at the western end of the East-West pipeline. This volume would potentially be available to meet Turkmenistan's commitment to EU for supplying 10 bcm, under an MoU signed last year.
How this volume would travel to Europe is a question for Nabucco planners to solve.
While pondering this question, one should bear in mind that the insistence on Trans-Caspian pipeline as the primary route for Nabucco may kill the project.
As we have emphasized in some of our commentaries, Nabucco should be promoted as a flexible idea, not a rigidly defined network of pipes.
Al the Caspian littoral states have concerns of their own and trying to lay a pipe on the Caspian bed would meet fierce resistance, most notably from Russia and Iran. Their concerns are legitimate.
Iran is the most logical route for taking Central Asian gas to Europe.
In near future Iran will have two border points from where it gets Turkmen gas.
Iran is in contract with Turkmenistan to develop some fields in the Osman-Yoloton area. It is presumably a comprehensive deal, involving development of fields, and extraction, purification and pumping of gas to Iran, through the Yoloton-Sarakhs pipeline that would be built as part of the package deal. The capacity of this pipe has not been announced to the media.
It is about 110 kilometers from Yoloton to the Sarakhs border with Iran, from where the gas can enter the Iranian network.
Already in existence is the Korpeje-Kurtkui pipeline that connects some western Turkmen fields with the Iranian network. At present 8 bcm of gas is going annually to Iran but the pipe capacity allows for up to 15 bcm of throughput.
With two entry points for Turkmen gas to enter Iranian territory, the Nabucco planners should logically consult Iran for transit rights or swap arrangements.
The oft-repeated rhetoric that the free world is worried about nuclear ambitions of Iran is actually a Neocon poppycock.
None of the regional countries have ever expressed any alarm about Iran’s nuclear ambitions. If the immediate neighbours are not worried, the rest of the world has no cause for alarm.
Apart from the basic fact that Iran is the most logical and economical territory for transiting Central Asian gas to Europe, there are two powerful arguments in favour of this energy transit route:
1. The Nabucco planners need to note that if it is all right for the USA to open negotiations with Iran for supply route to its armed forces in Afghanistan, why should it be wrong to negotiate with Iran for getting a transit route for natural gas meant for the peaceful and taxpaying citizens of Europe?
What is more important? Keeping a pointless war alive in Afghanistan or meeting the basic needs of voters at home? Europe must make up its mind now.
2. Energy is energy, whether it is in the form of electricity or natural gas. If there is no opposition to transiting Turkmen electricity through Iran to Turkey, why should there be such resistance to transit Turkmen natural gas to Turkey, and onward to Europe through Iran? We would also like to highlight here that the electrical energy that is going to Turkey through Iran is partly resold to Iraq through none other than Halliburton, the company whose image is deeply associated in people’s minds with the oily bust of Dick Cheney, the Neocon Chacha.
Is there some unwritten clause in the American policy of sanctions on Iran that everything is permissible as long as some Neocon company benefits from the deal?
Opportunities for Foreign Partners
The East-West pipeline of Turkmenistan presents a bundle of opportunities for foreign partners.
A project of this magnitude, where the government is underwriting the risks, is a true bonanza in these times of economic and financial crisis.
Together with the pipeline plans, the Turkmen government announced that it would increase its LPG production capacity.
Both of these ideas should be considered together for a better grip on the situation.
In addition to expanding the LNG capacity at Nayip, the Turkmen government could be open to the proposal of setting up a liquefaction facility at Turkmenbashy or Ekerem. This would be useful in liquefying the surplus volumes from the East-West pipeline and export to potential buyers anywhere in the world through the sea, rail and road systems.
As the commentaries written by some prominent local journalists suggest, the East-West pipe would enable the government to regulate the flow and volume of gas in any direction. It means that several export pipelines can feed from this conduit without worrying about the output of any particular field. It is a readymade solution for some of the objections that have been raised by the critics.
The pipeline is big and it would require eight or ten compressor stations to keep the gas flowing.
Obviously, there is scope for pipe and compressor station manufacturers, transporters, manpower suppliers, and support service providers.
More than that, this is the chance for some insurance and corporate banking sector solution providers to put their act together and enter the Turkmen market.
No single company would be able to do this project on its own because of the diversity in know-how and technology required for putting all the elements together.
The best thing would be to put together a consortium and submit a total-solution bid. A company with established presence in Turkmenistan could act as consortium leader. By joining the consortium new companies can enter the Turkmen market on the back of a solid, long-term project.
The East-West pipeline is really an open end tube, with full scope of partnership for everyone interested in gas supplies from Turkmenistan.

[Coxos]

TURKMENISTAN: INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES LINE UP FOR SLICE OF EAST-WEST PIPELINE
5/28/09
More than 70 companies have answered an international tender to build Turkmenistan’s East-West gas spur -- and the applications keep arriving, authorities claim. The $1.5 billion project includes not only the construction of a 1,000-kilometer pipeline that may or may not pump Turkmen gas into Russia, but also several gas compressor stations.
The controversial project was put to international tender in March after a rocky meeting between President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow. [For background see the Eurasia Insight archive]. The East-West spur is supposed to hook up with the Prikaspiiski pipeline and funnel Turkmenistan’s vast gas reserves directly into the hands of Gazprom.
Ashgabat, however, is hedging its bets on a "multi-vectored" distribution of its gas wealth and in an apparent snub to Gazprom -- which considered its participation in the project to be a done deal -- opened an international competition for its construction.
Russian, European and Chinese companies are now vying for the contract, the Turkmen state news agency reported on May 27.

[Alfgolf]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 37.293.923 von Coxos am 01.06.09 11:04:17

zu erwähnen wäre dragon oil...die dort sehr gute Aussichten haben...877789

[Coxos]

June 03, 2009

Dragon Oil Continues To Push Ahead In Turkmenistan As Continuous Drilling Delivers More Barrels


Dragon Oil continues to make solid progress in Turkmenistan, where it is busy drilling on its oilfield redevelopment projects in the Cheleken Contract Area in the eastern section of the Caspian Sea. This work programme is set to deliver a steady stream of newsflow as the company continues to make good progress towards meeting its target of eight wells by year-end.
This Soviet-era project covers 950 sq km and lies in shallow waters, no more than 50 metres deep. There is plenty of potential here, with proved and probable reserves of 645 million barrels of oil and condensate (Dragon’s share comes to 283 million barrels and 3.2 trillion cubic feet of gas) lying in two fields, Dzheitune (LAM) and Dzhygalybeg (Zhdanov).

These are impressive numbers but extracting value from these reserves isn’t straightforward. The company, backed by Middle East money after the Emirates National Oil Co took a 52 per cent stake, has had to contend with aging Soviet-era infrastructure, the logistical and commercial issues of exporting oil from a geopolitically sensitive area and the technical challenges of a geologically complex structure. This is a complex faulted structure, with multiple sand layers and thin reservoir sands of variable quality and connectivity. This means it’s important the company, which is listed in London and Dublin, identifies and maps faults in order to optimally position wells and keep costs down.

Given these challenges, Dragon has made good headway. Last year the company increased average gross production by 28 per cent to 40,992 barrels per day compared to 31,997 bpd in 2007. In Q1 2009, production averaged 43,787barrels of oil per day, up 19 per cent on the prior year period. And because of the fall in the oil price, down 52 per cent compared to Q1 2008, and increased capex, the company’s share of the output was up, from 56 per cent of gross field production in Q1 2008 to 65 per cent in Q1 2009.

The production increases came on the back of continuous drilling of the field, a tactic that will continue this year as three rigs work up the field full time, leading to an anticipated 15 per cent uplift in production by year-end. Initial drilling results have provided encouragement that this target will be met, with the 13/133A well, which was drilled to a depth of 2,975 metres, delivering combined production of 2,628 barrels of oil per day. This was the first well to be drilled using the company’s own newly upgraded platform-based rig, Rig 40, which has already been skidded across to the Dzheitune (Lam) 13 platform to drill the 13/135 development well. Initial test results from the 28/134 well, drilled using the Iran Khazar jack-up, are also due soon and the company is seeking an additional land rig to help ensure it meets that eight-well target.

However, the real upside here lies in Cheleken’s vast gas resource. Dragon is making solid progress towards monetizing this resource, building the new trunkline and commissioning the Phase 2 expansion of the central processing facility, which will increase production capacity to 100,000 bpd of liquids with the capability to handle up to 220 million cubic feet per day of gas. Bids were received late last year for the Front End Engineering Design Study, which will then see the company tender for the additional construction works.

Unlike many in the independent oil sector, the company has a strong financial position to back its ambitions, with an enviable cash balance of US$833 million at the end of Q1,including US$106 million set aside for abandonment and decommissioning activities, and no debt.

[Vinyard]

Weitere Nahrung für das Nabucco-Projekt:

Putin warnt vor Gasstopp

Der russische Regierungschef Wladimir Putin hat vor einem neuen Stopp der russischen Gaslieferungen über die Ukraine nach Europa gewarnt. Es könne bereits Ende Juni oder Anfang Juli soweit sein, sagte er bei einem Besuch in Finnland.

Russland hatte in den vergangenen Wochen mehrfach gewarnt, die Ukraine könne ihre Rechnungen für russisches Gas nicht bezahlen. Kiew wies dies stets zurück. Erst Anfang des Jahres hatte ein Streit um die Bezahlung von Gaslieferungen aus Russland an die Ukraine zu einem tagelangen Lieferstopp von Gas geführt.

Putin rief die Europäische Union auf, der Ukraine finanziell zu helfen. Kiew habe nicht einmal genug Geld, Gas in seinen unterirdischen Speichern einzulagern und so für den Winter gewappnet zu sein. EU-Kommissionspräsident José Manuel Barroso hatte die Forderung nach finanzieller Hilfe für die Ukraine in der vergangenen Woche zurückgewiesen.

Quelle: n-tv

[Coxos]

Turkmenistan to supply up to 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas to China
On June 2, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov received Deputy Chairman of the All-China Committee of the People's Political Consultative Council of the People's Republic of China Ms. Zhang Meyin. The meeting was also attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China in Turkmenistan U Hunbin.
Welcoming the guest, who is in the Turkmen capital on a working visit, the president praised the "dynamic development of Turkmen-Chinese relations", the Ashgabat correspondent of Turkmenistan.ru reports with reference to the press service of the head of state.
"Year by year, the scope of inter-state partnership in various fields of economy is growing," Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said. According to the president, "very soon up to 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas will come to China from Turkmenistan via the transnational gas pipeline, which would further strengthen the ties of friendship and cooperation between the two countries."

[Vinyard]

[i]Uzbek part of Turkmenistan-China natural gas pipeline to be completed in 2010

You can see that the way to get natural gas from Turkmenistan (the country on the southwest part of the highlighted countries on the map) to China requires going through two other countries. You could technically go all the way through Kazakhstan but that's much too indirect, and technically Afghanistan is joined with China but the country is unstable and the piece of land connecting the two is extremely thin...plus it's way too mountainous, which includes Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. That means that going through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan is really the only logical route.

With that said, let's take a look at the article:

The Uzbek part of the Turkmenistan-China natural gas pipeline is expected to start activity at the beginning of 2010. The laying of the pipe will be finished as of 2009, and actual gas shipments are planned to happen in 2010.

The part of the pipeline to transport Turkmen gas to China located in Uzbekistan is being carried out by the joint Chinese-Uzbek 'Asia Trans Gas' company. The 525 km long part in Uzbekistan is expected to cost $2.975 billion.

The pipeline is around 7000 km in length, of which 185 km is in Turkmenistan, 525 km is in Uzbekistan, 1,293 km in Kazakhstan and 4,860 km of which goes through China. The part in Uzbekistan goes through the provinces of Buhara-Kashkadarya and Navoiy.

The pipeline between Turkmenistan and China will be able to transport varying volumes of natural gas between 30 and 40 billion cubic metres per year.[/i]

[Coxos]

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