Kazakhstan will start extracting oil from the Kashagan Field of the Atyrau Region in late March 2013, as stated by NCOC Managing Director Pier Offman at a meeting with Governor of the Atyrau Region Baktykozh Izmukhambetov, Kazinform reports.
They discussed oil extraction in the North-Caspian.
Offman said that Kazakh specialists took 80% of workplaces of foreigners. Participants of Kashagan development purchased goods worth $3 billion.
83% of work on the ground complex of Kashagan was done and 62% of the naval complex.