Tag archive for ‘oil’
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Kashgan Crisis Has Ended
After this great article on potential directions an agreement with Eni might take in Kashgan by Ben, it appears a settlement has been reached. KazMunaiGas, the state oil company, will have its share of the project increased “equal to that of the largest shareholders,” according to a statement from KazMunaiGas. According to the AFP report: […]
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The New Great Game Take infinity
President Vladimir Putin was in Kazakhstan yesterday and he and President Nazarbayev will be traveling to Turkmenistan this week together. Two issues are on the agenda. First, Russia will be assisting Kazakhstan in enriching uranium for its nuclear energy power center. The two countries will be setting up a joint-uranium enrichment center. It looks like […]
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Kazakhstan and Foreign Investors
The Spectator has an article from last week provocatively titled Why Come to Kazakhstan? According to the article, government controls are getting too tight for many foreign businesses and creating a disincentive to invest there. Most interestingly, the article claims that in terms of energy and mineral resource rights, things are about to get a […]
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The Environment
Over the past month or so, there’s been a fair amount of good news regarding enviornmental projects in Kazakhstan. The government introduced an Ecological Code recently, to codify and integrate laws regarding environmental protection and bring them up to world standard. However, in Kazakhstan as in many other countries, there is pressure to ensure that […]
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Aytrau Update
Courtesy of < "http://theai.blogspot.com">The AI, an article from an English language Turkish paper Sabah quoting Turkish workers in the Tengiz oil fields. Turkish laborers working at a construction site in Tengiz Kazakhstan cried for help saying the Kazak laborers attacked them: “they genocide us here. We are awake for 48 hours with cleavers. Please announce […]
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Tragedy in Atyrau
The AI has a nice, if tragic, article on a conflict that occured between Kazakh and Turkish workers in Atyrau, at the Chevron Tengiz oil field–a joint venture between Chevron, the Kazakhstany government and other foreign companies–leaving 140 wounded! Aytrau, in Western Kazakhstan, is the site of a large oil field where the petroleum business […]
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New Akim of Atyrau
So far, there is not much written about this, but yesterday, while the President was in Western Kazakhstan, there was a protest in Atyrau—the capital of offshore oil in Kazakhstan. 300 people stood in front of the oblast akim’s office with signs that said “We support Kazakhstan but the akim has to go!” This wasn’t […]
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The Visit
On the eve of Nazarbayev’s visit to the White House on Sept. 29th, speculation and analysis abounds as to what the issues on the table will be. The White House site has a nice list: Democracy Promotion: Kazakhstan Neweurasia has put up a slighting cartoon from The Economist. This is one big issue. And one […]