East meets West at Kazakh oilfield
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TENGIZ, Kazakhstan  - The Tengiz oilfield in Kazakhstan is a blend of Western corporate culture and old Soviet ways -- even through it's been years since U.S. oil firm Chevron came to develop it.
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MOSCOW  - Russia's natural resources minister said Monday foreign companies would be welcome to help develop offshore oil fields, the same day a senior U.S. diplomat expressed concern about the minister's earlier statement that foreign access to oil and gas deposits would be limited.
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Business & money: Firm to explore in oil and gas sites in landmark agreement that could help plug Russian gap.
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Gleaming hotels, the region's best pastrami sandwiches and the planet's largest population of wolves: these are things Kazakhs want the world to know about their country &#151; not the outrageous claims of the British comedian who portrays them as primitive and bigots.
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MOSCOW. June 20 (Interfax) - Russian and Lithuanian experts have acknowledged the ecological safety of the D-6 oil platform at the Kravtsovskoye field, which is being developed by Lukoil- Kaliningradmorneft.
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YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK. June 4 (Interfax) - Oil spills have been discovered near two wells operated by Russian oil company Rosneft (RTS: ROSN) in the north of Sakhalin, non-governmental organization Sakhalin Environmental Watch (EVS) said in a press release on Monday.
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Russia, the world&#39;s second-biggest oil exporter, will benefit most from a Siberian crude oil pipeline to the Pacific rather than to China as energy resources are needed to develop the
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Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev is opening the official leg of a U.S. visit which is likely to include broad discussions of the country's growing importance as an oil supplier and its shortcomings in protecting human rights.
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Russia is toying with China and Japan, both of which are courting its oil, in a pipeline drama that could see the downtrodden giant Yukos and its assets play the clinching role.
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"The U.S. side warned about the political influence Moscow would gain by controlling energy resources in Serbia and the region, and expressed a negative assessment about the economic justification of South Stream"  By Oleg ShchedrovMOSCOW  - Russia won the right on Friday to route a major gas supply route to Europe through its ally Serbia, a move analysts described as marking a Kremlin victory in a "pipeline war" with the European Union.The gas agreement, signed in the Kremlin before President Vladimir Putin and visiting Serbian leaders, alarmed the United States because it increased Moscow's control over energy supplies to Europe and could undermine a rival EU project.Strong Russian opposition to independence for the Serbian province of Kosovo was a key bargaining chip in the agreement for Serbia to join the South Stream gas pipeline. Belgrade also agreed to sell a majority stake in Serbia's oil monopoly NIS to Russian gas giant Gazprom at a favorable price. Read more
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OAO Gazprom, the world&#39;s largest natural gas producer, will bid for OAO Yukos Oil Co.&#39;s biggest oil unit next month and may buy other Russian producers in an effort to create an oil business as big as Exxon Mobil Corp.
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The US offers rights for oil and gas in an area of north-western Alaska renowned for its wildlife.
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Russian authorities meet to decide whether to withdraw a licence for BP's joint venture in the Kovykta gas field in East Siberia.
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Russia is trouncing the West in the race to gain access to the enormous oil and gas reserves of its neighbors.
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The country's oil has made it the leading player in Central Asia, and a welcome visitor to the White House. But economic success doesn't guarantee democracy
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TASTUPEK, Kazakhstan -- In the cool of one recent evening, after tending to his herd of 19 camels, Puzblay Seytpembetov and four companions pushed his small single-engine boat out onto the placid waters of the Aral Sea to lay fishnets. In the morning, he predicted, he would haul in flapping carp and...
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Kazakhstan and an Eni-led  consortium of oil majors have set January 15 as the new deadline for talks over the fate of the giant Kashagan oilfield, Kazakh energy minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Monday.