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#2 (68), April 2011

A special issue devoted to the ATYRAU OIL & GAS - 2011 Exhibition

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Only Local Purchases!

Only Local Purchases!

Svetlana Akhmedbekova, director of Industrial Department for Kazakhstan Content of JSC National Agency for Local Content Development NADLoC, answers the following questions for Petroleum.

- What is the dynamics of the purchases of goods, works and services (GWS) by subsoil users in the mining and oil and gas industry from the Kazakhstan producers for the past year?

Missed Opportunities

Missed Opportunities

At the end of the last year, with no special pomp and ceremony, has had its chips one of the most ambitious state programs adopted in Kazakhstan for 20 years of independence – the State Program for the Development of the Kazakhstan Sector of the Caspian Sea (ESCS).

Projects

The Third Coming

In late 2010, the Kazakhstan national company KazMunayGas has made a new expansion to the foreign markets. The Kazakh-Korean consortium in the structure of KMG (which is represented by the company’s subsidiary JSC KazMunayGas Exploration & Production) and South Korean Korea Gas (KOGAS) has won a tender for the development of one of the gas fields in Iraq - Akkas.

Tengizchevroil: 2010 in Review. Safety and Health

Tengizchevroil: 2010 in Review. Safety and Health

Safety and health of our workforce is a core value for TCO. Our commitment to ensuring safe and reliable operations resulted in continued world-class results, in fact, in 2010 we recorded our safest year ever.
An important aspect of safety in an operation such as Tengiz is motor vehicle safety. We also recorded our safest year ever in this area, another world-class result.

Chevron Launches First Metal-Plastic Pipe Production in Kazakhstan

Chevron Launches First Metal-Plastic Pipe Production in Kazakhstan

Setting a course for innovation and economic diversity in Kazakhstan, Chevron has inaugurated an advanced, high-tech production process for manufacture of composite metal-plastic pipe at the Atyrau Polyethylene Pipe Plant (APPP). No other facility with this capability exists in any of the CIS countries.

Kazakhstani Vector of LUKOIL

Kazakhstani Vector of LUKOIL

Andrey Prokofievich Kirillov, director of LUKOIL Overseas Service B.V. branch in Astana, answers the questions of Petroleum.

Andrey Prokofievich, LUKOIL is considered to be one of the first companies which have launched its activity in Kazakhstan: the company’s arrival took place in 1995. Can you tell us about the volume of investments in the oil and gas industry over these years?

The New Time of AtyrauNefteMash

The New Time of AtyrauNefteMash

The enterprises like people each have their own destiny. The history of the machine-building plant began in the first quarter of the last century when on the basis of mechanical workshops for servicing water and railway transport a new plant was formed which started to release equipment for oil fields.

Nobody could predict then that in decades it will become a leading machine-building enterprise in the industry and the whole country. For a long period of time it had the name of the plant evacuated from Ukraine «The Plant Named after Petrovsky», and in 2000 received its present name - AtyrauNefteMash LLP.

Technology

A Turn for the Better

A Turn for the Better

In developed countries, CO2 emissions are heading lower.
Some negative trends are good news. In developed countries energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions appear to have peaked and are expected to decline

New Technologies of Zirax-Nefteservice - at the Service of the Kazakhstan Oil Industry

New Technologies of Zirax-Nefteservice - at the Service of the Kazakhstan Oil Industry

Kazakhstan is located in the centre of geostrategic plates – between the strongest nations of Asia (China, India and Russia) and between the largest countries – the sources of anxiety for the international community (Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran). The long-term policy which consisted in strategic forming of relationships between neighboring countries, and to date, between Beijing, Washington, Brussels and Moscow, has already brought honorable dividends to the country

Legislation

New Aspects in Transactions on the Transfer of the Subsoil Use Right under the New Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan ‘On Subsoil and Subsoil Use’

New Aspects in Transactions on the Transfer of the Subsoil Use Right under the New Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan ‘On Subsoil and Subsoil Use’

Despite the strengthening of the requirements to the obtaining of an approval of a competent authority to commit transactions on the transfer of subsoil user rights, including by the transfer of shares (participatory interests) in a legal entity that holds the subsoil use right, as well as the pre-emptive right of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the transferred subsoil use right, shares (participatory interests) in a subsoil user or legal entities that may directly or indirectly govern the decisions of subsoil users, subsoil use is one of the high priority area for investors.

Subsurface Users Forum Expects Guests

Subsurface Users Forum Expects Guests

Quite shortly on April 29, 2011 Almaty will host the Third Annual Forum of Subsurface Users of the Republic of Kazakhstan. GRATA Law Firm has been the mastermind and the organizer of this major business and social event over the last three years. In an interview to our magazine our guest Mr. Almat Daumov, Director, GRATA Law Firm Office in Almaty, will dwell upon the forthcoming Forum and many related issues.