The field, which took nearly 13 years and $50 billion to complete, is operated by a consortium comprising Total, Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell, Italy’s Eni, US supermajor ExxonMobil, Kazakh state company KazMunaiGas, Japan’s Inpex and China National Petroleum Corporation.
It was only brought online in September but was shut down two weeks later, then again on 9 October, following reported gas leaks.
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