Zhetybay Oil Field (Kazakhstan)

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Zhetybay Oil Field (Жетыбай) is an operating oil field in Kazakhstan.

Project Details

Main Data

Table 1: Field-level project details for Zhetybay Oil Field

¹Final Investment Decision
²If a country or region is known to not produce any hydrocarbons in an unconventional method, this production type is assumed to be conventional

Unit name	Status	Operator	Owner	Discovery year	FID1 year	Production start year	Production type2
Zhetybay	Operating	MangistauMunaiGaz	MangistauMunaiGaz (100.0%)	1961	–	–	Conventional

Production and Reserves

Table 2: Reserves of Zhetybay Oil Field

million bbl = million barrels of oil

Fuel description	Reserves classification	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
oil	2P reserves	952	million bbl	2015	​
oil	geological reserves	2194.4	million bbl	2017	​
oil	residual reserves	452.18	million bbl	2017	​

Table 3: Production from Zhetybay Oil Field

million bbl/y = million barrels of oil per year

Category	Fuel description	Quantity	Units	Data year	Source
production	oil	14.04	million bbl/y	2015

Location

Table 4: Field-level location details for Zhetybay Oil Field

Basin	Location	Onshore/Offshore	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Mangyshlak–Central Caspian	Onshore, Kazakhstan	Onshore	43.5415, 52.177 (exact)

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