Kazakh Minister hopes for increase in oil reserves due to unestimated resources

TANA. October 4. KAZINFORM /Damir Baimanov/ Kazakh Oil and Gas Minister Sauat Mynbayev believes that the volume of unextracted oil in Kazakhstan could be even more than the measured reserves.

photo: QAZINFORM

According to the substantiated data, Kazakhstan ranks ninths in the world in proven oil reserves. It is what the independent resources say. I think we may reckon on increase in oil reserves in the future taking into account our geological reserves estimates and the underway large-scale geological surveys, Mynbayev added.