- Kazakhstan, whose giant Kashagan oilfield started output last week, expects the deposit to achieve commercial production in October and produce ~8M metric tons of crude in 2014, the country's oil and gas minister says.
- Central Asia's largest economy and the second-largest ex-Soviet oil producer after Russia, Kazakhstan has forecast Kashgan will produce 1M bbl/day from 2020 and eventually reach 1.5M.
- KazMunaiGas, ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A, RDS.B) and Total (NYSE:TOT) and Eni (NYSE:E) each hold 16.81% stakes in Kashagan; China National Petroleum (NYSE:PTR) acquired an 8.33% stake this year, and Japan's Inpex owns 7.56%.