Tengiz Field
Oil refinery in KazakhstanWikipedia
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Sep 22, 2026
Legan KondykovHOST
Yes, we know there were some problems recently, but is it really connected to it or there is some other reasons?
Peter LeonardHOST
Yeah, in fact, all the three fields of Kazakhstan, so Tengiz, Karachaganak and Kashagan have at various points through the last year experienced some kind of problem.
Peter LeonardHOST
So in Tengiz, there was a fire in January, then there was some other disruption in Later on, a few months later, Karachaganag, that's an interesting story because there actually the issue is that, okay, Kazakhstan produces all this gas, but it does not have, and this is an important part of the story, it just doesn't have the capacity to process it all.
Peter LeonardHOST
So what Karachaganag used to do is send a lot of the gas to Oryanburg, which is in Russia, across the border.
Peter LeonardHOST
Now that was damaged by Ukrainian forces.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
During 1992, Yeltsin wheeled and dealed with Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, Amoco, Texaco, and Exxon.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
The Chevron joint venture to develop the Tengiz oil field was signed.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
McDermott International, Marathon Oil, and Mitsui signed a contract with the Russian government to develop oil and natural gas off Sakhalin Island.
Ashe in AmericaHOST
Chevron and Oman formed a consortium to build a huge pipeline to carry crude oil from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea, Mediterranean, and Persian Gulf.
DaveGUEST
How should we respond? How do we keep people safe? And we're trying to manage a global response to this thing in conjunction with the different business units.
DaveGUEST
We had 40,000 rotators working in Tengiz on a major capital project, all living in man camps.
DaveGUEST
It was just an incredibly complex situation.
DaveGUEST
And so I actually, we stood up a pandemic response team.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
Routine flaring has been banned since the mid-2000s, and the country cut flared volumes by more than seventy percent between 2012 and 2022, the largest reduction of any producer in that period, underwritten by the deep pockets of the international majors operating its largest fields.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
Chevron, Eni, Shell, and partners at Tengiz, Karachaganak, and Kashagan, paired with a domestic gas market built to make associated gas recovery pay for itself.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
Mexico already has a comparable mandate, which makes the lesson sharper.
Lorena RuizNARRATOR
Since 2016, all operators, state and private, must sustain at least ninety-eight percent utilization of associated natural gas.
Peter ZeihanHOST
Uh, the Ukrainians had been attacking the, a p- place called Novorossiysk, which is a significant naval port and commerce port on the Black Sea, on the Russian section.
Peter ZeihanHOST
And at Novorossiysk is the terminus for a pipeline called CPC, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which transports crude from Kazakhstan, specifically, uh, the Tengiz field that is operated by Chevron and Exxon, through Russia to that port and then to the wider world.
Peter ZeihanHOST
And the Trump administration was angry that the Ukrainians were attacking, uh, what they see as American infrastructure.
Peter ZeihanHOST
Russians obviously don't see it that way.