News Roundup - November 28, 2007

Financial Times: Oil groups move to calm Kazakh dispute

A high-ranking foreign delegation arrived in Astana on Monday to discuss Kazakhstan’s demands for compensation for production delays and soaring costs at the Kashagan oilfield in the Caspian Sea…

Financial Times: KMG EP ‘knocking on the door’

KazMunaigas Exploration Production, the London-listed arm of Kazakhstan’s national oil company, hopes to get a stake in the troubled Kashagan development if the consortium running the project is restructured…

Financial Times: Kazakhstan to be offered deal by watchdog

Kazakhstan is facing rejection in its bid for the chairmanship of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2009, when the security, democracy and human rights watchdog holds its annual meeting in Madrid this week…

Itar-Tass: Russia, Kazakhstan DMs sign cooperation accord

The Foreign Ministries of Russia and Kazakhstan have signed a cooperation agreement…

Eurasia Daily Monitor: Momentous implications of Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey railroad (part one)

Ignoring the anti-constitutional opposition’s calls for immediate regime change, Georgia began construction work on its section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars (Turkey) railroad on November 21…

Oil and Gas Eurasia: KPO launches new gas pipeline

Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Karim Massimov, WKO Akim, Baktykozha Izmukhambetov, and other RoK officials today visited the Karachaganak field and met with senior representatives from KPO’s major shareholders…

Neweurasia.net: National award winners to be announced Friday

On November 29 the Jury that includes well-known and respected people of our country will name the Persons of the Year 2007 in culture, business, medicine and art…

Cargonews Asia: Lufthansa hub move unlikely despite relief

The Russia-Lufthansa spat over use of Russian air space is still continuing but Lufthansa has got a fresh reprieve until the end of February. Lufthansa Cargo said “we have got some breathing space” for three months to decide what steps to take but indicated it could not bow to Russia’s demands yet…