BTA signs revised restructuring deal
(SRI) - BTA Bank, which had defaulted on its debt last year, has signed a new agreement with creditors, paving the way for a successful debt restructuring.
(SRI) - French oil major Total signed an agreement with Polish Petrolinvest to acquire a 50-percent interest in Petrolinvest’s Kazakhstan license held by its subsidiary OilTechnoGroup (OTG).
(SRI) - Zhaikmunai LP, a Kazakhstan-focused oil and gas company, reported an average daily production of 7,559 barrels of oil equivalent in the fourth quarter of 2009, up 53 percent year-on-year.
(SRI) - Kazakhstan’s flag carrier Air Astana reported a record profit of $47 million on revenues of $546 million for 2009, up 176 percent from 2008, according to the company’s unaudited financial statements.
(SRI) - Kazakhstan exported 5.204 million tons of oil and gas condensate in January, up 16.7 percent compared to the same period last year, the State Statistical Agency reported. Export revenues in January amounted to $2.756 billion.
(Reuters) - The number of victims of last week’s flood that destroyed a village near Kazakh financial hub Almaty has risen to 37, a deputy prime minister said Tuesday.
(SRI) - Kazakhstan may sell Islamic bonds as early as this year as the country seeks to establish itself as a major player on the Islamic finance market, Kazakhstan’s Finance Minister Bolat Zhamishev said on Monday.
BTA signs revised restructuring deal (SRI)
Russia and Kazakhstan consider reviving bilateral trade (Eurasia Daily Monitor)
Assets of National Bank of Kazakhstan grew 60 percent in 2009 (Interfax)
Kazakhstan to develop grain exports to the Persian Gulf countries and Iran (AgriMarket.Info)
National Bank of Kazakhstan: Exchange rates March 18, 2010 (Kazakhstan Today)
Kazakhstan against enlargement of trilateral Customs Union (Interfax - Kyiv Post)
Intergovernmental documents signed between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan (TREND)
(SRI) - In a government reorganization last Friday, Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev created a new oil and gas ministry and reshuffled the cabinet.
(SRI) - Sauat Mukhametbaevich Mynbayev, one of Kazakhstan’s most influential politicians, has been named the head of the newly created Ministry of Oil and Gas on March 12, 2010.
