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Silk Road Intelligencer: News Roundup - September 20, 2007

Sep 20, 2007

News Roundup - September 20, 2007

Italian energy company Eni is treating the outcome of a meeting of its Chief Executive Paulo Scaroni with the Kazhakh government as a closely guarded secret. But the outcome of the negotiations -- whenever they emerge -- will be an important sign of whether Eni can remain at the helm of a joint venture to exploit one of the largest oil fields discovered in the past four decades, capable of pumping out 1.5 billion barrels per day...
A Kazakh parliamentarian urged the government on Thursday to suspend the U.S. Chevron-led (CVX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) joint venture operating the Tengiz oilfield in the Central Asian state due to ecological violations...
The deputy of the Senate Gani Kasymov asks the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov to prohibit work of "Tengiz Shevroil" company on the territory of the republic whilst the problem of sulfur utilization is not solved, reports KZ-today correspondent...
Austrian Federal Minister of Economics and Labour Martin Bartenstein and Azerbaijan Minister of Industry and Energy Natig Aliyev will sign a memorandum of understanding on Azerbaijan’s presence in the Nabucco project...
Shareholders in the only oil pipeline on Russian territory not controlled by the Russian government agreed to increase transport tariffs and restructure the operation's debt, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium said Wednesday...
Kairgeldy Kabyldin was appointed as vice chairman of the board of directors of JSC "Kazakhstani holding on state assets management "Samruk"" according to the order of the Minister of Economics and Budgetary Planning, reports the agency referring to the press service of "Samruk" state holding...
A representative from Saudi Arabia called on the secretariat of the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions to condemn the recent publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons in Swedish press...
CTC Media, Russia's leading independent television broadcaster, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority financial interest in Channel 31 group, one of the leading broadcasters in Kazakhstan...
Visiting Austrian Minister of Economics and Labor Martin Bartenstein said on Monday that his country is interested in exploring new oil and gas fields in energy-rich Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan...
HotNews.ro: OMV Interested in Kazakhstan Resources
Austrian oil giant OMV intends to open several oil and gas projects in Kazakhstan, said Austrian Economy Minister Martin Bartenstein, during a meeting with the Kazakh Energy and Resources Minister, Sauat Minbaev...
RIA Novosti: Two Keys in Kazakh Hands
It is too early to predict which issue will have priority at the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly. If everything goes according to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon's plan, the session will focus on global climate change. But if everything goes against the declared wishes of everyone, it will concentrate on Iran, or, to be more exact, on the threats of war against Tehran, which have begun to sound more serious in the last few weeks. Surprisingly, Kazakhstan can play an important if not a key role in both debates. It is a country with an impressive record of efforts for a clean environment for the sake of development. It is also Iran's neighbor and a nation playing a special new role in the search for modern systems of regional security...
Gazeta.KZ: It Is Cheaper to Transfer Gas via Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline than via "Middle Asia - Center"
It is cheaper to transfer gas via trans-Caspian gas pipeline than via "Middle Asia - Center", said on Monday, September 17, during the meeting with the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of the Republic of Kazakhstan Sauat Mynbayev the head of the European Commission Delegation to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Ambassador Adriaan van der Meer...
Reuters: Chevron Rejects Criticism of Kazakh Operations
Chevron Corp rejected criticism of its environmental record in Kazakhstan on Thursday after a Kazakh parliamentarian urged the government to suspend the U.S. oil major's operations at the massive Tengiz oilfield due to ecological violations...
Reuters: Azerbaijan to Pump Less Oil through Russia in '08
Azerbaijan plans to pump considerably less oil through Russia next year as it uses cheaper alternative export routes, the country's state oil firm said Thursday...

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