Oil export duty should be revised more often - Mynbayev

(SRI) - The Kazakh Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources suggests that the oil export duty should be revised more often, Interfax reported on Monday.

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KPO disputing new oil export duty

(SRI) - Karachaganak Petroleum Operating (KPO), a Western oil group developing the Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field in Kazakhstan, is disputing the new oil export duty in its application to KPO’s operations.

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Kazakhstan to nearly double crude export tax

(SRI) - Kazakhstan will nearly double the export duty on crude oil to $203.8 per metric ton from $109.91 in October, according to a government decree published on Thursday.

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Export ban and increased export duty can reduce price for diesel fuel and gasoline - Nar Oil

(SRI) - Temporarily banning exports and increasing export duties on oil and petroleum products can reduce price for combustive-lubricating materials (CLM), said Sultan Ushbayev, the chairman of the Board of Directors of oil industrial group Nar Oil, according to Kazakhstan Today.

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Kazakhstan considers export tax on Chevron’s Tengiz field

(Financial Times) - Kazakhstan is considering imposing an oil export tax on Chevron’s Tengiz field, broadening a campaign to milk more revenues from the petroleum industry.

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Kazakhstan may increase crude export duties

(SRI) - Kazakhstan may increase crude export duties to stabilize the prices on the domestic market of oil products, said Kazakh Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sauat Mynbayev, according to Interfax.

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Chevron says Kazakhstan exempted Tengizchevroil from oil export duty

Chevron Corp.’s venture in Kazakhstan said the government granted it an exemption to a new duty on oil exports more than a month before the tax came into effect.

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Kazakhstan Energy Roundup - July 16, 2008

Chevron says Kazakhstan exempted venture from oil export duty
(Bloomberg) - Chevron Corp.’s venture in Kazakhstan said the government granted it an exemption to a new duty on oil exports more than a month before the tax came into effect.

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Karachaganak group to pay Kazakh oil export duty

A consortium developing the huge Karachaganak gas field in Kazakhstan has become the first Western entity in the Central Asian nation to fall under a new oil export duty, a senior government official said on Monday.

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