SITE: KAZAKHSTAN
Kashagan, 80 km south-east of Atyrau, in the North Caspian Sea, is the largest oil field discovered over the last thirty years worldwide and extends over a surface of approximately 75 km by 45 km.

Its development represents one of the greatest challenges of the petroleum industry given the deep, high-pressure reservoir, the high sulphur content, the shallow waters that freeze in winter and wide temperature variations from -30C to +40C. The potential daily average production is of 1.2 million barrels.

The frame agreement
Skema awarded the frame agreement for the provision of all intelligent LV Switchgear/ MCC’s and the Integrated Protection and Control System for both offshore and onshore facilities for the
Kashagan Experimental Programme.

Duration: 2005 - in progress

End user
Agip KCO


A consortium comprising


EPC contractors


The Kashagan Project consists of two developments:
Offshore Complex
Artificial islands in the Caspian Sea
As part of the Experimental Programme and in support of drilling operations, Agip KCO has already constructed a number of rock structures that became known as "artificial" or "drilling" islands.
In total, four drilling islands, Island A and Island D for Kashagan and two separate islands for Aktote and Kairan, have been built.
More artificial islands will be built as the project progresses and will be linked between
themselves and onshore operations by pipelines.

Onshore Complex
Bolashak Onshore Processing Facility
Agip KCO operations continue onshore, 35 km north-east of Atyrau. The works started in 2002
and include two main components: the Early Works Program, for which Skema already
supplied 6 MV/LV Packaged Substations, and the construction of an Onshore Processing Plant.
When constructed, Bolashak Onshore Processing Facility will receive oil and gas delivered from offshore in order to produce export quality oil and gas for further sale, as well as fuel gas for use at the Agip KCO onshore and offshore facilities.