The Post-Salt Oil Fields and Prospects of the PreCaspian Basin (Kazakhstan) – Remaining Potential?

B046 THE POST-SALT OIL FIELDS AND PROSPECTS OF THE PRECASPIAN BASIN (KAZAKHSTAN): REMAINING POTENTIAL? Abstract 1 The PreCaspian Basin (Kazakhstan) has many giant oil and gas fields and is one of the most important salt basins in the world due to the occurrence of an evaporitic unit (Kungurian-Lower Permian) separating two mega complexes. This paper analyzes the Post-Salt discovered Oil&Gas Fields and the potential of these prospects. The Post-Salt identified hydrocarbon reserves are 3 billion barrels of oil and around 10 TCF only 11.5% and 1.2% respectively of the Basin reserves. Since the 18th century the presence of oil and