The Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) could extend its oil output cuts to the end of 2017, provided other producers continue to cooperate on the deal.
Naftiran Intergraded Company Sàrl, Swiss-based subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), and France's Total will sign oil swapping deal for around 200,000b/d.
Iran has signed an agreement with Kazakhstan towards building a 50MW wind power plant in the west of Kazakhstan, near the country's Caspian Sea shores. The Kazakh government will finance the $110m project.
Lukoil—the second largest oil producer in Russia—sold its stake in Kazakh oil company Caspian Investments Resources to China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation,
Since the 1991 collapse of the USSR, the Caspian basin has come surging into the global oil and natural gas market. The U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration estimates that the Caspian could contain as ...
Kazakhstan, an oil producer since 1911, has the second largest oil reserves as well as the second largest oil production after Russia in the post-Soviet space. Soviet Kazakhstan’s oil production did not increase to a ...