Kazakhstan: Kanat Bozumbayev Appointed as New Energy Minister
Kazakhstan named Kanat Bozumbayev, a former head of the country’s power grid, as its new energy minister on Friday, as the second-largest oil producer in the former Soviet Union faces a drop in output following a slump in crude prices. Kanat Bozumbayev, 47, replaces Vladimir Shkolnik, who oversaw a rapid …
Kazakhstan: To Develop the Caspian Depression
Kazakhstan plans to form a consortium with global energy companies to explore and develop potentially huge hydrocarbon reserves in the Caspian Depression, Energy Minister Vladimir Shkolnik said on Monday. Central Asia’s largest economy and the second-largest post-Soviet oil producer after Russia, Kazakhstan for several years has touted the “Eurasia” project, …
ENI: CEO, Claudio Descalzi, Meets With The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Massimov
The Prime Minister of Kazakhstan, Karim Massimov, and the Minister of Energy, Vladimir Shkolnik, met Eni’s CEO Claudio Descalzi today in Astana. In the meeting, Claudio Descalzi illustrated the positive progress of Eni’s activities in Kazakhstan, with a particular focus on the projects for the Kashagan and Karachaganak fields, and Eni’s …