Entro Settembre i risultati dei negoziati sul gas tra Kazakhstan e Kyrgyzstan
I negoziati tra Kazakhstan e Kyrgyzstan sulle forniture di gas naturale dal primo verso il secondo saranno completate entro la fine di Agosto o nel mese di Settembre.
Il principale tema di discussione è al momento il prezzo del gas.
Il Kyrgyzstan prevede di comprare circa 100 milioni di metri cubi di gas nel 2012 e 300 milioni di mc nel 2013.
Il Kyrgyzstan ha iniziato ad acquistare gas dal Kazakhstan da ottobre 2011 a 195 Usd/1.000 mc di gas.
Japanese banks to allocate over $297.5 mln to build oil-deep processing plant in Kazakhstan
The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC; Governor: Hiroshi Okuda) signed today a buyer’s credit (export credit) agreement totaling up to 178.5 million U.S. dollars (JBIC’s portion) with LLP Atyrau refinery (AR), a subsidiary of state-owned oil and gas company JSC NC KazMunayGas in the Republic of Kazakhstan that is engaged in oil refining and the marketing of petroleum products. This loan is cofinanced with The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. (BTMU), and Nippon Export and Investment Insurance (NEXI) provides Buyer’s Credit Insurance for the portion cofinanced by BTMU. The overall cofinancing amounts to 297.5 million U.S. dollars.
This loan will mainly fund the purchase of a fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) and associated plant equipment through Marubeni Corporation as part of the modernization project intended to minimize the environmental impact of the manufacturing process in the Atyrau Oil Refinery operated and maintained by AR in Atyrau City, Kazakhstan.
Astana ospiterà il VII Forum Eurasiatico “KazEnergy”
Il 2 e 3 ottobre Astana ospiterà la settimana edizione di Kazenergy, ci riferisce Baurzhan Altynbekov, rappresentante delle Pubbliche Relazioni di KazEnergy.“Il tema dell’evento di quest’anno è la Pace in Tempi di Cambiamento: Costruire un futuro energetico sostenibile”, dichiara Altynbekov.
Molti interventi sono previsti, da parte del presidente del World Petroleum Council, Randall Gossen, del ministro dell’Oil & Gas del Kazakhstan Sauat Mynbayev, del capo dell’Associazione delle società petrolifere KazEnergy, Timur Kulibayev e molti altri.
“Tra 57 giorni inizierà l’evento, ma l’accreditamento dei media e le iscrizioni sono già cominciate”.
Maggiori informazioni su questo evento internazionale su http://www.kazenergyforum.com/en/
Sollevamento pesi: Svetlana Podobedova regala la sesta medaglia d’oro al Kazakhstan
La kazaka Svetlana Podobedova ha vinto la medaglia d’oro olimpica di sollevamento pesi, categoria 75 kg, con un totale di 291 kg.
Nel 2010 era stata nominata miglior sollevatrice pesi dell’anno dalla Federazione Internazionale Sollevamento Pesi. Il suo compagno, il kazako Vladimir Sedov, è Campione mondiale di sollevamento pesi.
London 2012: il Kazakhstan vince con Olga Rypakova la sua sesta medaglia d’oro
Salto triplo femminile : ha vinto la kazaka Olga Rypakova con una misura di 14.98. Una rivincita per questa atleta che era arrivata quarta a Pechino 2008.
La nuova campionessa olimpica del triplo femminile, 27enne di Ust Kamenogorsk, argento iridato, ha conquistato il titolo a cinque cerchi saltando 14,98, suo primato stagionale. Alle sue spalle la colombiana Caterine Ibarguen con 14,80 mentre il bronzo va alla campionessa del mondo in carica, l’ucraina Olha Saladuha, che si ferma a 14,79.
Some information about the AKTAU INTERNATIONAL SEA COMMERCIAL PORT’s activities
Since the beginning of 2012 «Aktau International Sea Commercial Port» has handled over 6 million 732 thousand tons of dry and oil-bulk cargo, what came to 109.5 % of the target.Moreover total transshipment of crude oil and oil products came to 4 million 715 thousand tons, dry cargoes 2 016 thousand tons, including transshipment of metal products – 827thousand tons, other cargoes – 218 thousand tons, grain – 459 thousand tons. The volume of ferry transportations came up to 512 thousand tons.
Number of ships’ calls since the beginning of 2012 is 1 146.
Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan may discuss oil pipeline construction
Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan may discuss construction of an oil pipeline during a meeting of the countries’ leaders, KyrTAG reported with reference to Kyrgyz Economy and Anti-Monopoly Minister Temir Sariyev on Monday.
He said the issue is very important and it should be discussed at the meeting, he said.
The issue of the pipeline construction was already discussed during Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev’s last visit to Kazakhstan.
Sariyev said that Kyrgyzstan plans to finish the construction of the oil refinery with capacity of 800,000 tons in Kara-Balt by late 2012.
Kazakhstan takes measures to improve positions in Doing Business
Kazakhstan is taking active measures to improve its positions in the Doing Business ranking, the Kazakh Ministry of Economic Development and Trade said on Saturday.
“The main focus of work to improve Kazakhstan’s position in the Doing Business ranking in the current year will be on enhancing the reform process on indicators of “International trade” and “Obtaining a building permit”, the ministry said.
Thus, under the work on “International trade” direction a register of public service, providing paperless customs declaration of goods crossing the customs border of the Customs Union was approved.
At the same time, work is ongoing on the analysis of procedures performed by public authorities when carrying out export and import operations. According to the results of this analysis the list of documents required for the implementation of foreign economic activity will be formed.
A single list of documents and requirements for obtaining licenses, permits and other requirements in the field of export-import operations was also prepared.
Vietnam shows interest in joining Customs Union
KAZINFORM Vietnam President Truong Tan Sang looks into an opportunity for Vietnam to join the Customs Union of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan. The Vietnamese leader made this statement at a press conference in Naryan-Mar, the Russian Federation, on 29 July, according to BelTA.
In his words, at the meetings with the Russian leadership there was discussed a possibility to expedite the negotiations to sign an agreement on free trade. “We have agreed to announce the start of negotiations on the free trade agreement at the APEC summit in Vladivostok in September 2012,” the Vietnamese President stated. “We hope that with a strong political will of the leadership of our countries as well as of our Belarusian and Kazakhstani friends and partners, we will be able to launch this process soon and complete it as an agreement on Vietnam’s accession to the Customs Union,” he added.
He expressed confidence that the agreement on Vietnam’s accession to the Customs Union would give a huge stimulus to mutual relations and trade.
KazAgroFinance purchased over 800 combine harvesters to support farmers
ASTANA. August 2. KazAgroFinance has entered in the agreements for over 800 harvesters by the harvesting campaign of this year. As it was before, the wide range of grain harvesting machinery by the manufacturers and suppliers fr om the near and far abroad, as well as the Kazakhstan machinery plants is introduced to the national agrarians. The national leasing company contemplates to purchase about 320 harvesters “Essil” from Kostanai “Agromashholding” JSC and over 300 units of the machinery from “Combine Factory “Rostselmash” LLC within the framework of the agreements made. Moreover, as of today KazAgroFinance entered into the agreements for purchase of 100 “Yenisey”, 85 John Deere, 13 CLAAS and 15 Case harvesters. At that, it should be noticed that the so-called “completeness” of these agreements depends on the availability of interest and demand for the machinery by the farmers and the agricultural entities of the republic. Today, there are over 500 applications for purchase of the grain harvesters under consideration at KazAgroFinance. Currently, about 400 of them have been approved by the Credit Committee of the Company.
