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Kashagan field

oil field, Kazakhstan
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  • oil platform
    petroleum
    / Russia and the Caspian Sea region

    Kazakhstan’s Kashagan field in the northern Caspian Sea was discovered in 2000. It was the largest and newest conventional field discovered since the finding of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay field in 1968. Kashagan is estimated to have already produced 7 billion to 9 billion barrels out of


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    Kazakhstan’s Kashagan field in the northern Caspian Sea was discovered in 2000. It was the largest and newest conventional field discovered since the finding of Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay field in 1968. Kashagan is estimated to have already produced 7 billion to 9 billion barrels out of


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