From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 13:56:07 EDT
CASPIAN NEWS AGENCY
CNA all-inclusive newsline
/14:21 08.04.2003/ Oil production in Kazakhstan over January-March made
more than 12 mln tonnes
Astana, March 8, 2003. (CNA). Production of oil and gas condensate in
Kazakhstan amounted to 12.39 million tonnes in January-March, which was
13% more than in the same period last year. This included 1.53 million
tonnes of gas condensate (up 31% year-on-year), a source in the Kazakh
government told Interfax.
Subsidiaries of Kazakh national oil and gas company KazMunaiGaz produced
1.91 million tonnes of oil and gas condensate in the first three months
(up 10.5% year-on-year).
Companies with KazMunaiGaz participation produced 5.15 million tonnes of
oil in the reporting period (up 10% year-on-year). Most of this
production was accounted for by Tengizchevroil - 3.298 million tonnes
(up 2.8% year-on-year) and Karachaganak Petroleum Operating Co. (KPO) -
1.52 million tonnes (up 31.4%).
Other Kazakh oil companies produced 5.33 million tonnes of oil in
January-March (up 17% year-on-year), Interfax reports.
Oil production in Kazakhstan in March this year amounted to 4.272
million tonnes (2.2% under target), including 531,823 tonnes of gas
condensate.
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/14:18 08.04.2003/ Kazakh president meet with ChevronTexaco head in
Astana
Astana. April 8, 2003. (CNA). Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev met
with ChevronTexaco Chairman and Chief Executive Officer David O'Reilly
in Astana on Saturday.
Tengizchevroil, a Kazakh-U.S. joint venture, marks its 10th anniversary
today. ChevronTexaco owns 50% in the venture.
Kazakhstan and Chevron signed an agreement to set up the company on
April 6, 1993 in Almaty. Tengizchevroil began producing oil at the
Tengiz deposit in western Kazakhstan in 1994.
Thanks to support of the Kazakh president and the government,
Tengizchevroil has become on of the most successful companies not only
in Kazakhstan but also in the CIS, O'Reilly told journalists after the
meeting, Interfax reports.
Over the next five years, Tengizchevroil will increase production from
the current 13 million tonnes to 20 million tonnes of oil per year, he
said.
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/14:15 08.04.2003/ Abkhaz law enforcers hunt for jailbreakers
Tbilisi. April 8, 2003. (CNA). Law enforcers of the unrecognized Abkhaz
Republic search for nine prisoners escaped from Sokhumi jail on April 7.
Abkhaz authorities suppose that the jailbreakers might find shelter in
Kodori gorge, which is the only part of breakaway Abkhazia controlled by
the Georgian authorities.
Georgian State Security Minister Valeri Khaburdzania at the briefing
today said that the jailbreakers are not on Georgian-controlled
territory at the moment. De facto Vice-President of Abkhazia Valeri
Arshba told Civil Georgia today that there are Georgians, Chechens as
well as Abkhazians among the jailbreakers. He also confirmed that some
of them were sentenced for death penalty. "Prisoners could escape with
the assistance of the jail guard," Arshba added, Civil Georgia reports.
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/14:12 08.04.2003/ Supplies of Russian natural gas to Armenia have been
resumed in full
Yerevan. April 8, 2003. (CNA). Supplies of Russian natural gas to
Armenia have been resumed in full, i.e. 5m cubic meters a day, the press
service of ArmRosgazprom, a supplier of Russian gas to Armenia,
reported. Russia has cut natural gas supplies to Armenia to 2.5m cubic
meters a day over the past several days. The source explained that this
reduction was caused by uncoordinated policies of the Russian natural
gas monopolist Gazprom and the international gas supplier Itera, the
Arminfo agency reported.
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