(SRI) - Kala Capital, a Georgian investment group, is negotiating with KazTransGas the acquisition of the Kazakh company’s local subsidiary, KazTransGas-Tbilisi.
ENERGY:
Washington reiterates interest in Kashagan
(New Europe) - The future of the world’s largest oil field Kashagan in the Kazakhstan part of the Caspian shelf has once again become a central theme for discussion - at the Kazakhstan International Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference (KIOGE).
Financial crisis affects Kazakh oil investments (New Europe)
OMV’s Petrom plans to boost Kazakh oil production (SRI)
Kazakhstan’s oil and gas production up for the year through September (SRI)
MINERAL RESOURCES:
Six dead and five injured in Kazakhmys mine lift accident (Interfax)
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY:
Kazakhstan Kagazy says unit gets 33 mln euro loan from European bank (Thomson Financial - Forbes)
SamrukKazyna must be transparent and accountable to the public - Prime Minister (Interfax)
National Bank of Kazakhstan: Exchange rates October 15, 2008 (Kazinform)
Indicators - October 14, 2008 (Reuters)
POLITICS:
Rakhatgate scandal continues to haunt Astana
(EurasiaNet) - A recent attack on an associate of Aliyev and reports that a series of high-profile figures in Kazakhstan have become subjects of criminal investigations — probes that are widely seen as linked to the Rakhatgate — have served to bring more unwelcome publicity to the Nazarbayev administration.
State, despite of difficulties in economy, to meet its social obligations in full - Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan Today)
Rakhatgate scandal continues to haunt Astana
(EurasiaNet) - A recent attack on an associate of Aliyev and reports that a series of high-profile figures in Kazakhstan have become subjects of criminal investigations — probes that are widely seen as linked to the Rakhatgate — have served to bring more unwelcome publicity to the Nazarbayev administration.
State, despite of difficulties in economy, to meet its social obligations in full - Nazarbayev (Kazakhstan Today)
Kazakhstan Kagazy says unit gets 33 mln euro loan from European bank (Thomson Financial - Forbes)
SamrukKazyna must be transparent and accountable to the public - Prime Minister (Interfax)
National Bank of Kazakhstan: Exchange rates October 15, 2008 (Kazinform)
Indicators - October 14, 2008 (Reuters)
Six dead and five injured in Kazakhmys mine lift accident (Interfax)
Washington reiterates interest in Kashagan
(New Europe) - The future of the world’s largest oil field Kashagan in the Kazakhstan part of the Caspian shelf has once again become a central theme for discussion - at the Kazakhstan International Oil and Gas Exhibition and Conference (KIOGE).
Financial crisis affects Kazakh oil investments (New Europe)
OMV’s Petrom plans to boost Kazakh oil production (SRI)
Kazakhstan’s oil and gas production up for the year through September (SRI)
(SRI) - Petrom S.A., a subsidiary of Austrian OMV, plans to boosts its Kazakh oil production to at least 10,000 barrels of oil a day (bpd) by 2009, Interfax reported on Tuesday.