Beke, Oil Sand Field, Mangystau Region, Republic of Kazakhstan

Project description:

The oil sand field was known since the ninetieth century and detailed explored in the 1970ies. From this time on oil sand was mined in small scale close to the surface in a small open pit. Until 1991 further exploration was done. The client wants to exploit the oil sand for commercial use. HPC was contracted with several consulting and engineering tasks like the reserves estimation, a Feasibility Study for the oil sand treatment as part of a Bankable Feasibility. Furthermore HPC had to develop a mine plan for a yearly production of 500,000 tons of bitumen.

Reason:

development project, mine plan
Bankable Feasibility Study

Services:

technological planning of all mining activities including recommendations for appropriate equipment for open cast mining
geotechnical calculations
calculations of the slopes
calculation of dewatering
geohydraulic calculations
calculations of the tailings
planning of the Infrastructure
preliminary planning regarding all related national and international regulations, standards and laws

Advantages:

3D-Modeling of the mine plan considering all frame conditions as base for a Bankable Feasibility Study

Additional project data:

about 10 million t bitumen
licence area 10 km²
about 300 million m³ excavated material
about 2,000 drillings
about 1 million data

At a glance:

Client:

FIDE Ltd.

Project value:

vertraulich

Project duration:

2007 – 2011

Images:

Ölgemälde des Beke Oil Sand Fields in der Mangystau-Region, Kasachische Republik, mit Landschaft und Infrastruktur.

Ölbohrstelle im Beke-Ölsandfeld, Mangystau, mit sichtbaren Förderanlagen und umliegender Landschaft.

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