News Roundup

News Roundup - September 30, 2007

By SRI ⋅ September 30, 2007 ⋅

Reuters: Kazakhstan Says Higher Oil Stake Not Key Goal
Kazakhstan said on Thursday that securing a bigger stake in the huge Kashagan oilfield was not its main goal in a row with the project’s Italian-led consortium of Western oil majors…
Reuters: Eni Says Kashagan Work Ongoing, Confirms Target Date
Eni Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni said on Thursday that work at the Kashagan oil field in Kazakhstan was going forward and confirmed the third quarter of 2010 was the forecast date for production…
CNN Money: Eni CEO Sticks With ‘10 Kashagan Output Start; Work Continues
Eni SpA (E), the Italian oil and gas company that leads a consortium developing the Kashagan field, is sticking with its forecast given earlier in the year for output to start in 2010 at the Kazakh project, Chief Executive Paolo Scaroni said Thursday…
Eurasia Insight: Anti-Terror Exercise Held at Kazakhstan’s Baykonur Cosmodrome
Antiterror exercises at Kazakhstan’s Baykonur cosmodrome, which began today, will make a significant contribution to strengthening the CIS’s potential of combating terrorism. Cosmonauts Fedor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov, members of the 15th crew of the International Space Station [ISS], said this, welcoming the start of the exercises…
Global Voices Online: Bid Politics and Human Lives
But politics first: Andy-taker draws attention to the fact that ministers in Kazakhstan are being reshuffled, migrating from one government to another in a manner which bears no particular relation to their professions. Pretty much the same happens on lower levels; maybe this is the reason for the people’s dissatisfaction with the officials? …
Mondo Visione: Wiener Börse Launches Cooperation With Kazakhstan Stock Exchange
In the future Wiener Börse and the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange will work together: The President of the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange, Azamat Joldasbekov, and the joint CEOs of Wiener Börse, Michael Buhl and Heinrich Schaller, signed a Memorandum of Understanding to this effect in Vienna yesterday afternoon…