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Products

Tengizchevroil produces liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), dry gas and sulfur in addition to crude oil.

Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)

  • TCO focuses LPG sales to the wholesale term market under long-term contracts to pre-qualified customers.
  • TCO sells to the wholesale spot market only on an "as needed" basis when additional production quantities are made available to pre-qualified customers.
  • TCO does not operate in the retail market.
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Disclaimer

Submission of this questionnaire and participation in TCO’s evaluation process do not create any obligation on the part of TCO to qualify, approve, engage, or enter into any commercial relationship with an applicant. TCO reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to accept or reject any application and is under no obligation to disclose the results, findings, or reasons for its evaluation decisions. Information provided may be used for qualification, due diligence, compliance, and related business purposes in accordance with applicable laws and TCO’s internal processes.

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Potential Customer's Pre-Qualification Criteria

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Customers

TCO has established a long-term, diverse and capable customer base which support reliable product off take under term sales agreements.

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Markets

TCO sells LPG to Kazakhstan and to export markets using rail and seaborne deliveries.

Sales to Kazakhstani customers

 

TCO sells LPG inside Kazakhstan. Sales are made using a monthly request for proposals (a tender process).

Export sales

 

TCO sells LPG by Rail deliveries and Seaborne deliveries are made to Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea region countries (from Black Sea terminal)

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Potential Customer's Pre-Qualification Criteria

Prospective customers should demonstrate the operational, technical, and financial capability required to safely receive, handle, store, transport, market, distribute, or utilize LPG, and to meet applicable contractual and commercial obligations. This includes compliance with relevant safety requirements, access to suitable infrastructure and logistics, and sufficient financial capacity to support ongoing business activities.

Documents to be submitted to assess LPG inquiry

  • To enable commercial assessment of the potential consumer, TCO will require all potential buyers to fill out the Commercial Questionnaire
  • To enable technical pre-qualification of the buyer's operating facilities and related assets, TCO will perform a safety visit to the facilities, using the Technical Questionnaire for an assessment

Please send all your filled in documents at tcolpgt@tengizchevroil.com

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Dry Gas Sales

TCO prefers to sell dry gas under medium and long-term contracts to customers who are consumers of dry gas in their owned-facilities or owners of distribution pipeline systems which they use to deliver dry gas to retail consumers.

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Pre-Qualification Criteria for Potential Customers

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Customers

TCO delivers dry gas to customers in domestic and export markets by shipping through pipelines. Domestic sales are made "free carrier" (FCA) and export sales are made "delivered at frontier" (DAF) to TCO's pre-qualified customers.

In the Kazakhstan market, TCO supplies dry gas to local communal and industrial customers located in Atyrau oblast.

TCO plans to continue supplying gas under long-term sales agreements for both export and domestic customers. TCO is focused on maintaining access to existing customers in the market and also tries to diversify customers.

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Pre-Qualification Criteria for Potential Customers

TCO assesses all potential customers from commercial, financial, and technical perspective. All potential customers must meet TCO's requirements under its business review process. TCO gives strong preference to establishing commercial business relationships with end users who consume dry gas in their facilities or own pipeline distribution networks used to deliver dry gas to retail customers. All potential customers must demonstrate organizational capability to qualify as TCO customer.

Documents to be submitted to assess dry gas inquiry

  • To enable initial business review, TCO will request all buyers to fill out, in detail, the Business Questionnaire
  • To enable performing a credit and business review assessment, TCO will require buyer's company registration documents, financial reports, bank reference, and other documents that TCO deems necessary to complete the assessment. Please see the Customer Credit Checklist for full list of required documents

Please send all your filled in documents at mtccom@tengizchevroil.com

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Sulfur Sales Strategy

TCO developed its sulfur sales strategy based on best industry practice to ensure that TCO treats all potential consumers of TCO sulfur and intermediate marketing support companies in a structured and equitable manner.

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TCO sells for export from the following priorities

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Customers

  1. TCO prefers to sell sulfur directly to end users
  2. TCO will sell sulfur through an intermediary marketing support company if:
    • The end user lacks organizational, logistical, and/or financial capability to buy TCO sulfur directly
    • The end user requests a single intermediary marketing support company with which the end user is willing to work through to purchase TCO sulfur
    • TCO approves the intermediary marketing support company based on its proficiency, sulfur trading expertise, proven track of record of sulfur marketing, organizational, logistical, and/or financial capability as the sole intermediary between TCO and the end user
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TCO sells for export from the following priorities:

  1. TCO is required to perform business review assessments of all participants in the sales chain. In order to perform required business review for all participants in the sales chain from TCO to the end user, the marketing support company making the inquiry must provide full information on each company in the sales chain including the end user.
  2. TCO sells to markets based on the following priorities:
    • Kazakhstan end users based on their demand
    • CIS end users that consume liquid sulfur based on the capacity of TCO and third party owned liquid sulfur rail tank cars
    • Offshore and CIS end users that consume GX granulated sulfur to a limit of granulated sulfur production capacity or export terminal capacity to ship granulated sulfur
    • Kazakhstan end users and CIS end users that consume crushed block sulfur (CBS) to a limit of recovery capacity at Tengiz or a railway capacity limit

Documents to be submitted

TCO needs to understand the participants in the full sales chain from TCO through intermediate marketing support companies, if required by end users, to the end users that consume TCO sulfur in order to meet TCO business review requirements. The TCO business review process is an integral element of the sulfur sales strategy. The TCO Sulfur Sales Questionnaire and Business Questionnaire are required to be filled out as a part of business review process.

Please send all your filled in documents at tcosst@tengizchevroil.com

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