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Oil workers fired in Zhanaozed and Aktau offered jobs in future drilling company
Participants of a blog-tour met with the chairman of EP KazMunaiGas Alik Aidarbayev.
26 December 2011
“Civil Alliance of Kazakhstan:” instigators of Zhanaozen unrest are not among oil workers
The chair of the board of the Civil Alliance of Kazakhstan Solovyeova argues that although some oil workers on strike followed the unrest organizers, they could not have plotted it.
26 December 2011
Nazarbayev: rioters in Zhanaozen were paid 20,000 tenge each
During his visit to Zhanaozen, the President promised that instigators of riots in Zhanaozen will be found and punished.
24 December 2011
KazMunayGas has a new head
Lyazzat Kiinov had already headed the Company back in 2002 which was a closed joint stock company at the time.
23 December 2011
Nazarbayev ordered investigation into Zhanaozen violence
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has ordered an investigation into the violence in the western town of Zhanapzen that left 11 people dead and 86 injured.
18 December 2011
3rd stage at Karachaganak to be revisited
It calls for certain modifications. Its configuration is subject to further discussions: Oil and gas Minister Sauat Mynbayev.
14 December 2011
Kazakhstan’s Oil and Gas Minister on Karachaganak deal
According to him, “the consortium will be exempted from export duty”.
14 December 2011
Negotiations over Karachaganak to be over before the New Year
There are no disagreements left: Vice Minister of Oil and Gas Lyazzat Kiinov.
09 December 2011
CPC expansion budget to remain unchanged
Caspian Pipeline Consortium is the largest oil export route from the Caspian region to global markets.
02 December 2011
Russia’s Sberbank Chairman German Gref on oil price
Mr. Gref admitted 2012 “will be rather complicated given the indicators of the latest months”.
01 December 2011
New oil field discovered in Aktobe oblast
South Korean state oil corporation KNOC discovered a new oilfield in Kazakhstan.
29 November 2011
Russia to cut down oil and petroleum products supply to Kazakhstan in 2012
It would be more reasonable to take Kazakhstan-produced oil out of the country, get it processed and brought in back: Kazakhstan’s Oil and gas Minister Sauat Mynbayev.
28 November 2011
Pavlodar-based oil refinery to process Kazakh oil first time in history
The facility received the first batch of 30 000 tons of Kazakh oil from oilfields located in Aktyubinsk and Kyzylorda oblasts.
25 November 2011
Kazakhstan to produce fuel of international standard in 2016
Construction of a new deep conversion plant will start at the Atyrau Refinery shorty. Euro-4, Euro-5 petrol will be produced in the end of 2013.
17 November 2011
Kazakhstan may join world’s top five oil exporters
Kazakhstan may join the world’s top five oil exporting nations, Noe van Hulst, IEF Secretary General said.
14 November 2011
Timur Kulibayev believes in Kazakhstan science
Timur Kulibayev, chairman of the board of Samruk Kazyna National Wealth Fund, declared that sience in Kazakhstan has a promissing future.
06 November 2011
Kazakhstan consideraing a fourth oil refinery by 2017
In May 2011 Oil and Gas Minister Sauat Mynbayev told Kazkahstan might construct a new oil refinery by 2020.
28 October 2011
Pavlodar-based oil refinery almost doubles oil processing
The refinery has come to a record high volume of oil processing over the last ten years.
25 October 2011
Kazakhstan and Russia to abolish export duty on crude under the CIS free trade agreement
The free trade agreement was signed in St. Petersburg by Russia, Ukraine Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and Tajikistan.
23 October 2011