Investment Legislation Should Be Understandable
When tenders are invited for offshore operations will the investment climate be improved and how will domestic market be regulated? Kazakhstani Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Vladimir Shkolnik tells about these issues. details >>
Find Your Place On The European Market
The recent gas agreements signed between Kazakhstan and Russia that among other things include a joint entrance of both countries to the European gas market are without exaggeration of historic importance. In fact, just few years ago Russia held our country in the grips of gas giving no possibility to develop the Karachaganak field. At that time one could hardly imagine that the cooperation between the two countries would be of such constructive nature. We asked Kazakhstani Energy and Mineral Resources Vice-Minister Uzakbai Karabalin to comment on these gas agreements. details >>
Agreements with Russia: Economic Efficiency And Political Effect
Over the last year the Kazakhstani Government has signed two serious agreements with our northern neighbor: the Agreement on long-term transit of Kazakhstani oil through the territory of Russian Federation and the Agreement on the gas cooperation between the two countries. The arrangements were also achieved regarding the passage of a middle line on the Caspian Sea. We asked Russia's Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador in Kazakhstan Yuri Merzlyakov to comment on these agreements. details >>
Kazakhstan companies' share in TCO project
TCO goods and service market is presented by purchase of vast range of equipment, materials; construction works. Apparently this is the marked, that the Kazakhstan production and service companies should be oriented towards. details >>
Kenkiyak-Atyrau: Outset of a Transnational Pipeline
The Kazakhstan-Chinese JV Northeast Pipeline Company Munaitas plans to finalize the construction of the Kenkiyak-Atyrau pipeline by the end of the next year. The future pipeline will be 488 km long. It will link the Kenkiyak with a base transfer station of KazTransOil in Atyrau and further with CPC and the Atyrau-Samara pipeline. details >>
Western Affiliate of KTO Gets Ready for Caspian Oil
KazTransOil's Western Affiliate is the major subdivision of Kazakhstani oil transportation company. Last year, the affiliate transferred 74% of total volume of oil shipped by the KazTransOil system. Ferdinat Mamonov, Director of KTO Western Affiliate, tells about activities of his company. details >>
Kazakhstan Builds Its Fleet
Each Precaspian State considers the availability of own fleet on the Caspian to be a matter of high priority and strategic value. Growing demand of Kazakhstani oil producers and advantages of expanding geography of transportation routes augmented by the cost attractiveness of water transport have prompted Kazakhstan to create a sea-going merchant fleet. Kairat Krymov, General Director of the National Maritime Shipping Company Kazmortransflot tells how the sea carriage is being organized in our country. details >>
KCS Enhances Its Offshore Capabilities
The active oil operations at the Caspian Sea role promote the enhancement of offshore geophysical work. The geophysical work of the last year accounted for 55% of the overall seismic surveys and it is expected to reach 90% already in 2005. KazakhstanCaspiShelf President Àlisher Kuanyshev tells about activities of the only company in Kazakhstan having the geophysical fleet. details >>
Geoinformation Mapping
Ecological surveys constitute an integral part of the present-day development of oil and gas sector. Over the last years the loads on natural ecosystems in some regions of Kazakhstan have dramatically increased due to intensified activities in exploration, production and transportation of hydrocarbon raw materials. details >>
IVECO Eurotrucker
The Iveco Eurotrucker trucks have gained tenable respect among constructors around the world since the very time they were put into production in 1994. details >>
Imstalcon: 50-years Market Experience
Imstalcon Open Joint-Stock Company was 45 in the year 2001. The first construction site in Kazakhstan was established as early as 1956 when an erection crew from "Stalkonstruk-tsiya", Novosibirsk had arrived on a business trip from Tashkent. At the present time Imstalcon OJSC is a strong company incorporating 21 subsidiary including 1 design bureau, 4 steelwork fabricators, 15 erection firms and 1 regional production branch. details >>
Kazavtotrans: transportation of crude oil from the oilfields to the terminals
In Kazakhstan almost all oil-producing companies have to transport crude oil from the oilfields to the oil terminals. About 43 % of produced oil is transported by road vehicles. Mr Baibolat Baimahanbet, Commercial Manager of the “Kazavtotrans” Company, will tell about the development of oil transportation services by road. details >>
New horizons of JSC UTS Tuimazykhimmash
JSC Tuimazykhimmash is dynamic developing enterprise with mightily production and technical potential and 30 years work experience in equipment production for oil and gas producing and processing industry branches. details >>
KIOGE – 2002
10th anniversary Kazakhstan international oil and gas exhibition and conference, KIOGE 2002 held in Almaty details >>
Caspian Story
LUKoil was appointed an authorized operator from the Russian side in the development of oil and gas resources of the Khvalynsk field jointly with Kazakhstan, and Rosneft was appointed an authorized operator in the joint development of the Kurmangazy structure. details >>
Pipeline to Ceyhan: Risks Remain
The Consortium developing the Kashagan has recently announced that the field's recoverable reserves are valued at about 7-9 billion barrels or 1 billion tons of oil. details >>
Reserves of Kashagan - 7-9 billion barrels of oil
Reserves of the Kashagan field are valued at about 7-9 billion barrels of oil. President of KazMunaiGas Lyazzat Kiinov told “this figure will be revised and might rise further”. details >>
LUKoil Will Export Gas By-Passing Russia
Participants of the project for gas production at the Azeri shelf field Shakh-Deniz with gas reserves of 1 trillion cubic meters wish to provide for extending gas exports from Turkey to South European countries. LUKoil is most actively lobbying this idea. The company's press service reported that LUKoil plans to enter the same market with its projects from the territory of the Russian Caspian Sea Sector. Thus, the Azeri and Russian gas flows can interconnect. details >>
Baku-Ceyhan Project Enters Its Practical Phase
Most shareholders of a sponsor group created for financing the construction of MEP Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan gave sanction to implement this project in late July. BP, the leader of the sponsor group, was the first to give permission for implementation of the project in late June. details >>
TotalFinaElf stays for multivector export
Considering forecasts for oil production in Kazakhstan TotalFinaElf thinks they should simultaneously realize several hydrocarbons' export projects. In particular by Baku Tbilisi-Ceihan and Kazakhstan-Turkmenia-Iran routes as stated the Head of the TotalFinaElf Tierry Demare after meeting with Nursultan Nazarbaev Head of RK. By Mr Demare words company will go on work and the research of mentioned two routes “to find out how they can be operated”. details >>
Transit Agreement Makes Friendship Everlasting
On June 7 Kazakhstan and Russia signed a long-term agreement on transit of Kazakhstani oil through the territory of Russia. The document on the long-term transit of Kazakhstani oil provides a guarantee of transfer of Kazakhstani hydrocarbons in view of increasing oil production. details >>
North-South Corridor Passes Through Port of Aktau
It is very attractive for Kazakhstan to get connected to the North-South Intergovernmental Transport Corridor. A 1600 km long channel linking the Caspian Sea and Persian Gulf is now under construction within the framework of the North-South ITC. It will enable Kazakhstan to extend the transit of hydrocarbons through the territory of Iran to the Persian Gulf countries, and deliver the Kashagan oil to the countries of the Asian-Pacific region being short of oil and oil products. details >>
Kirgizia Keeps A Pause
Astana will commence the construction of a gas main section by-passing Kirgizia already in autumn 2003 if Bishkek does not accept a concession offer. details >>
TECHNOLOGY
Drilling down for data
Robert Johnson, Inmarsat's Director, Portfolio Marketing, explains how the Inmarsat Global Area Network is helping scientists to access the rich oil reserves contained in the Caspian Sea. details >>
HP Supercomputer
HP announced at the end of July that the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) will connect a 9.2-teraflop HP supercomputer to the DOE Science Grid. When the installation is complete, the supercomputer will be the largest attached to a computer grid anywhere in the world. details >>
To Make The Right Choice With Provider
Much of companies, developing construction projects in Kazakhstan face a number of problems searching for the partners, that provide with construction materials. Often such problems need to be solved by most urgent way. Finnish company RANNILA suggests its' own way for that problems salvation. details >>
ASSESSMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
The proposed method of the quantitative assessment of environmental values and results of the conservation and restoration efforts allows expressing achievements in measurable units. It also provides conservation planning with grounds for the reasonable science based decision making in contrast to the widely currently used intuitive and voluntaristic.
This approach gives an opportunity to elaborate a list of priorities for the conservation with concentration of efforts on objects most valuable for nature and biodiversity conservation; to define directions, allowing improving the situation and increase efficiency and cost-effectiveness of nature conservation in Kazakhstan. details >>
A Gas Window to Southern Asia
At the early June in Islamabad was signed an agreement between Turkmenistan , Afghanistan and Pakistan on a Transafghan gas pipeline construction. Heads of Turkmenistan and Pakistan Saparmurat Niyazov, Pervez Musharraf and a Head of Afghan provisional government Hamid Karzai left their signatures on document. details >>
