Atyrau oil refinery ready to process 1 mln tons of Kashagan oil per year

ATYRAU. September 18. KAZINFORM Atyrau oil refinery is ready to process up to 1 million tons of oil from Kashagan oil field annually.

According to Director General of the Atyrau oil refinery Kairat Urazbayev, after Marubeni Corporation of Japan reconstructed the refinery's technological lines, it is ready to refine up to 1 million tons of Kashagan oil per year.

As reported earlier, the first barrels of oil at Kashagan field were produced in the Caspian Sea on September 11, 2013.

The experts believe that Kashagan field may produce up to 1.5 million barrels of oil per day.