The Chevron-led Tengizchevroil (TCO) consortium expects to start output from its "future growth project" (FGP) by September 2017, an industry source says. The FGP is due to boost output from western Kazakhstan's Tengiz field to 36mn t/yr (780,000 b/d) from the current 26mn t/yr. TCO will decide before July whether to go ahead with the $15bn-20bn project. It had originally hoped to launch it in 2016. A planned 12mn t/yr oil treatment plant is not now expected to have desulphurisation units, unlike the two existing plants. Instead, TCO plans to ramp up sour gas re-injection to utilise associated gas and avoid producing sulphur.
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