Kazakhstan has cut gas production at its Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field after Ukraine’s drone attack this week on the Orenburg gas processing plant in Russia, Energy Minister Erlan Akkenzhenov told reporters on Friday.
Raw gas from Karachaganak, whose stakeholders include Chevron and Shell, is usually delivered across the border to the Orenburg plant.
Kiev said on Wednesday it hit the plant, located about 1,700 km east of Ukraine.
Oil and gas output at Karachaganak are closely linked, meaning the field is not able to produce much oil if its gas production is down.
The plant was also hit last October.
“Naturally, we have reduced the gas intake,” Akkenzhenov said. “However, gas supplies to all of Kazakhstan have not been interrupted.”
Oil and gas condensate output at Karachaganak was down by about a quarter, to 25,000 metric tonnes per day, or 196,500 barrels per day, from 34,000 tonnes, the minister added.
It produced about 263,000 bpd of oil in 2024. The product was exported by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium via a Russian Black Sea terminal and also shipped through Russia’s Druzhba pipeline to Germany.
