North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) is an operating company for the North Caspian Sea Production Sharing Agreement (NCSPSA). NCOC is based in

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Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

. The agreement includes seven companies consisting of

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(16.88% each),

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(8.4%) and

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(7.56%).

Company

NCOC was created in 2009 taking responsibilities from

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KCO. The offices of NCOC are in Atyrau, Kazakhstan. As of July 2015, the company employed 2584 personnel. Managing Director is Giancarlo Ruiu.

Production

Production began on 11 September 2013 and was halted on 24 September 2013 after experiencing pipe failures. The project went through a complete pipe replacement. Production from the

Kashagan Field Kashagan Field (, ''Qaşağan ken orny'') is an offshore oil field in Kazakhstan's zone of the Caspian Sea. The field, discovered in 2000, is located in the northern part of the Caspian Sea close to Atyrau and is considered the world's largest d ...

resumed in October 2016 with an initial production of 75,000 barrels per day.

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.ncoc.kz/en/ncoc/default.aspx Non-renewable resource companies established in 2009 Oil and gas companies of Kazakhstan 2009 establishments in Kazakhstan