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Kazakh oil companies showing no interest in transporting oil through ESPO
(SRI) - Kazakhstan’s oil companies have yet to confirm their interest in transporting oil through Russia’s East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline, according to the general director of KazTransOil, Nurtas Shmanov.
Guler: Nabucco project will be implemented
(www.defsec.info) - Turkey’s Energy Minister Hilmi Guler called on Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to cooperate with Turkey in energy/drilling projects in the Black Sea and make joint energy investments, on Tuesday in a Baku energy conference.
Construction of gas pipeline West - South in Kazakhstan to begin in first half of 2009 - PM
(Kazakhstan Today) - Construction of West-South gas pipeline in Kazakhstan will begin in the first half of 2009, Karim Masimov,the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, said on Friday at the Internet-conference Strategy of the Government Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan organized by RosBusinessConsulting, the agency reports.
Transportation of Caspian oil in Caucasian direction can become additional factor of stability in this region - Kabyldin
(Kazakhstan Today) - Transportation of the Caspian oil in the Caucasian direction can become an additional factor of stability in this region. The President of JSC Company National Company KazMunaiGas, Kairgeldy Kabyldin, stated his opinion at the press conference on Thursday, the agency reports.
ANALYSIS: Central Asia: Russia and United States intensify energy competition
(EurasiaNet) - A three-sided diplomatic scrum is intensifying in Central Asia, as US, Russian and Chinese officials are stepping up efforts to wring energy-export deals from regional leaders.
Kazakhstan boosts oil production forecast
(SRI) - Energy officials in Astana are expecting to transport as much as 392 million barrels of oil per year through the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, UPI reported on Friday.
Expansion of CPC pipeline to be completed by 2012
(SRI) - Expansion of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) pipeline capacity is to be completed by 2012, Kazakh Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Sauat Mynbayev said at the Eurasian energy forum KazEnergy in Astana, Kazinform reports.
Oil chronicles: Astana does not believe in tears
As compared with the same period last year, oil production in Kazakhstan over the first four months of 2008 has grown by almost 6%, and that of natural gas – by 11%. Gas condensate production has decreased by 5% while the oil processing volume has risen by 5.4%.
Kazakhstan may join the final stage of Odessa-Brody pipeline project
(SRI) - Kazakhstan may commit to participating in the Odessa - Bordy oil pipeline to Plotsk provided Ukraine produces a feasibility study for the project, Interfax reported on Friday.
Kazakhstan Energy Roundup - July 17, 2008
Gas pipeline gigantism
(Asia Times) - Ground was broken in Kazakhstan last week for construction of that country’s segment of a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to China, set to be the longest and most expensive such pipeline in the world.
Central Asian natural gas pipeline off after blast
(AP - Forbes) - Part of a pipeline carrying natural gas from energy-rich Central Asia to Russia has been shut down after being damaged by an explosion.
Kazakhstan eyeing stake in Burgas-Alexandroupolis project (RBC News)
Jupiter Energy secures $50m loan (The West Australian)
Kyrgyzstan starts to export electric power to Kazakhstan (Kazinform)
