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Arystan oil field

oil field in Kazakhstan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ4071064 ↗
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Arystan Oil Field is an oil field located in Mangystau Province, Kazakhstan. It was discovered in 2008 and developed by Korea National Oil Corporation. The oil field is operated and owned by Korea National Oil Corporation. The total proven reserves of the Arystan oil field are around 57.8 million barrels (7.89 million tonnes), and production is centered on 1,480 barrels per day (235 m3/d).

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Arystan, field and Kazakhstan can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Arystan oil field” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.