More than 7 million barrels of oil produced and exported from the Kashagan oil field off the coast of Kazakhstan since late 2016. Photo courtesy of the North Caspian Operating Company. ASTANA, Kazakhstan, Jan. 13 (UPI) — More than 7 million barrels of crude oil have been produced safely from the Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan since September, the operator said. The North Caspian Operating Co., a joint venture operating the giant oil field in the Kazakh waters of the Caspian Sea, announced Friday it’s produced 7.3 million barrels of crude oil and an ultra-light form of oil called condensate since production resumed in late 2016. The consortium added that volume was exported to the foreign market. Production at Kashagan, which holds an estimated 16 billion barrels of oil, was halted in October 2013, less than a month after it started, when a pipeline associated with the field cracked […]