Surgil ESIA Report - Volume III - EKN

“O’ZLITINEFTGAZ”
open joint-stock company
FS «Complex development of Surgil field
with extracting of valuable components»
1 GEOLOGICAL ENGINEERING SURVEY AND LITHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF ROCKS
Administratively UGCC is situated in Kungrad district of the Republic of Karakalpakstan.
UGCC site is situated on Eastern Chink of Ustyurt, 5km northeast from Kirkkiz railway station. To
the west, 8km away from UGCC there is Akchalak compressor station (Picture 1). The site is on the
even place having up to 2m level difference (Picture 2). Southwest there is the railway and Kungrad-
Beineu highway and Central Asia-Center gas-main pipeline with Akchalak compressor station.
The nearest human settlements such as Akchalak settlement and projected camp related to
UGCC are 4-6km southwest away.
Picture 1 – Situational layout of designed objects
In geomorphological respect UGCC site has to do with the structurally denudational bedded
plains and is in southeast part of Barsakelmes yield of Ustyurt plateau with desert and semidesert
undulating land. Ustyurt plateau has low-magnitude seismicity – 6 points.
In geological respect UGCC has to do with the structurally denudational bedded plains.
Ustyurt plateau formation as a platform started during early Triassic period due to intensive
downwarping of the earth’s surface and accumulation of the offlap during Jurassic, Cretaceous and
Palaeogene periods.
Book 5. Declaration of environmental impact concerning UGCC construction
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