Kazakhstan Cuts Gas Output after Drone Strike on Russian Processing Plant

Kazakhstan has slashed by a quarter natural gas production at the huge Karachaganak oil and gas field after Ukraine earlier this week hit with drones a Russian plant processing part of the gas, Kazakhstan’s Energy Minister Yerlan Akkenzhenov said on Friday. “Naturally, we have reduced the gas intake,” Reuters quoted the minister as telling reporters today. Gas supply to Kazakhstan hasn’t been disrupted, Akkenzhenov added. Oil production at Karachaganak, which is operated by international superma