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data obtained from the contract area, in surgery for unspecified reasons before being with a volume of no more than 20 litres.
2017 BP submitted a Notice of Prospects to transferred to Aktobe.
SOCAR in connection with three promising Izbasar and 25 others were sentenced
areas (North Khali, Bibiheybat East and to lengthy prison terms in 2018 as a court Kazakh authorities
Garabatdag). found them guilty of stealing oil in Aktobe
The project plans to drill three region. complete unbundling of
exploration wells in total. The first Izbasar rejected all the charges at the
exploration well was drilled in the North time. He claimed he was tortured into gas pipeline operator
Khali field in August 2021. It is planned to confessing to the crimes while in custody.
start drilling the second well by the end of KazTransGaz
November 2021, and the third well in 2022.
Kazakhstan imposes ban on Kazakh authorities have completed the
unbundling of gas pipeline operator
Kazakh authorities release petroleum product export KazTransGaz from state-run oil and gas
firm KazMunayGaz following months of
alleged leader of oil by road vehicle regulatory delays.
KazMunayGaz said it completed the
thieving criminal group Kazakhstan has imposed a ban on transfer of its 100% shareholding in
petroleum product export by road vehicle,
KazTransGaz to sovereign wealth fund
Kazakh authorities have released Erkin Trend news agency reported on November Samruk-Kazyna in exchange for a nominal
Izbasar, the alleged leader of a criminal 12, citing the energy ministry. payment of KZT1 ($0.02).
group known as the Four Brothers, who was The measure is directed at preventing Kazakh authorities ordered
sentenced to 16 years in prison for stealing a shortage of oil products in the country. KazMunayGaz to start the unbundling
hundreds of tonnes of oil in 2018, "due to The six-month ban applies to the export of process in June 2020 in order to give
his state of health." petrol, diesel fuel and various other types of KazTransGaz its independence.
Izbasar’s relatives told RFE/RL on oil products. KazMunayGaz said the process took
November 12 that the 54-year-old was taken The ban does not apply to the export of a long time to complete due to various
home in the northeastern city of Aktobe lubricating oils or to petroleum products regulatory and financial conditions.
three days earlier. in fuel tanks of vehicles provided by the International banks acting as the firm’s
Izbasar was released from a penitentiary manufacturer. creditors had to agree to the transaction.
in the northeastern city of Oskemen in It also does not apply to the export of
late October and rushed to Almaty for fuels and lubricants in separate containers

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