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Kazakhstan to boost its oil exports
The construction of an oil pipeline started on Friday in Kazakhstan that will lead to an increase in oil exports from an oil field owned by the major energy company Chevron Corp. It marked the start of work enhancing the Caspian Pipeline Consortium route in the Western part of Kazakhstan.
read more... 05/07/2011
The Kazakh government may block the Karachaganak Gas Project Development
According to the Kazakh oil and gas minister, Kazakhstan risks to suspend the development of its most important gas field, called Karachaganak, if it hesitates to heal the conflict with the project’s foreign shareholders.
read more... 20/05/2011
Kazakhstan to suspend its work at Kashagan oil field for three years
Kazakhstan plans to suspend its activities on the main stage of the Kashagan project for three years, following the Royal Dutch Shell and Exxon Mobil attempts to persuade the country’s oil ministry to simplify the project design, which would cut their expenditures by $18 billion to $50 billion.
read more... 06/04/2011
Max Petroleum provides a production test of UTS-1 well in Kazakhastan
Max Petroleum, an oil and gas exploration company, based in UK, will provide a production test at its UTS-1 well, at the Uytas field in western Kazakhstan.
read more... 01/02/2011
Kazakhstan interested in building a nuclear plant.
Three Japanese companies, Japan Atomic Power Company, Toshiba Corp and Marubeni Corp, announced Wednesday that an agreement has been reached with Kazakhstan administration to provide data and cost estimates for the construction of a nuclear power plant with an advanced boiling water reactor.
read more... 30/09/2010