Tethys Petroleum Limited (United Kingdom) opens oil production facilities on Doris in KAzakhstan

09.08.11 15:26
/KASE, August 9, 11/ - Tethys Petroleum Limited (Channel Islands), common shares of which are officially listed on Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), provided to KASE the following press release of August 8, 2011: quotation Tethys Petroleum Limited (TSX: TPL)(LSE: TPL) today announced the opening of its Doris oil production facilities in Kazakhstan. Oil is currently being trucked from this location at a rate of approximately 1,500 barrels of oil per day ("bopd"), which will increase to 2-2,500 bopd with the new production facilities. With the opening of the new rail-loading facility in Q4 of this year, which will reduce the trucking distance by half, it is planned to increase production to 4,000 bopd. The production facility and terminal are designed for potentially much greater production rates in the future. ends The press release full version is available on KASE website at: - http://www.kase.kz/files/emitters/GG_TPL_/gg_tpl_reliz_080811.pdf - in Russian; - http://www.kase.kz/files/emitters/GG_TPL_/gg_tpl_reliz_080811_e.pdf - in English. [2011-08-09]