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Газета «The Moscow Times», November 14, 2008, By Ethan WILENSKY-LANFORD, KAZAKHSTAN IN PIPELINE DISCUSSIONS
Kazakh state-run energy producer KazMunaiGaz said Thursday that a delegation from the country was in Moscow for talks with Transneft on expanding its stake in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium.
Askar Batalov, executive secretary of the Kazakh Energy Ministry, told reporters that Kazakhstan wanted to boost its interest by about 3 percent from the current 19 percent.
Although the purchase would not bring Kazakhstan's holding to a blocking share, KazMunaiGaz spokesman Arzhan Takachakov said it was "quite natural" for the country to expand its interest in energy infrastructure.
"It is vital in terms of developing export options for Kazakh oil," Takachakov said by telephone.
The consortium owns a 1,580-kilometer pipeline from the Tengiz field in western Kazakhstan to Russia's port of Novorossiisk on the Black Sea. The pipeline pumped 32.6 million tons of oil in 2007, and its owners plan to double the pipeline's capacity in the next five years.
But Transneft, which holds Russia's 24 percent CPC stake, said Wednesday that it also was considering building a parallel line -- a move that would help Russia and Kazakhstan but contradict the interests of other shareholders, spokesman Igor Dyomin said, Interfax reported. Another option, he said, would be bankrupting the heavily indebted venture.
Kazakhstan had been interested in purchasing part of a 7 percent share in CPC held by the government of Oman and appeared surprised to find that it had already been sold to Russia.
On Oct. 30, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Astana that the two countries should jointly buy the stake, prompting Putin to respond: "I am not entirely sure, but it seems to me we have already bought it. I need to check."
The CPC web site has not been updated to reflect a sale by Oman. Two people close to the consortium said Thursday that Transneft might not have finalized its purchase of Oman's stake.
Газета «The Tehran Times» (Иран), November 12, 2008, KAZAKHSTAN SEEKS ACTIVE PRESENCE OF IRANIAN FIRMS
The deputy industries and trade minister of Kazakhstan announced here on Tuesday that of 384 Iranian companies settled in Kazakhstan only 207 are active.
Attending a Seminar in Tehran on Iran-Kazakhstan trade and investment opportunities, Edil Mamytbekov said that for enhancing bilateral trade relations it is necessary to expand activities of companies of each side in the other country.
The Kazakh official added that the sides’ trade volume in last year exceeded $2 billion of which less than $400 million was related to non-oil exports.
He went on saying that transportation, chemical, metals, oil and gas, food, and agriculture industries are the two countries’ major fields of cooperation.
According to IRNA, the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran is hosting the seminar.
Журнал «The Forbes», November 11, 2008, By Raushan NURSHAYEVA, KAZAKHSTAN EXPECTS CREDIT MEASURES TO KICK IN SOON
Kazakhstan said on Monday it expected a host of state stabilisation measures to start taking effect later this month and urged the government to act fast to combat the affects of the global financial crisis.
Stung by credit ratings downgrades and falling oil prices, Central Asia's biggest economy has been struggling to ease strains from the global financial storm, announcing a number of stabilisation measures and promising banks additional liquidity.
Prime Minister Karim Masimov, addressing a cabinet meeting, said the government planned to finalise its anti-crisis package by Nov. 25 to 'defuse clots' in the financial sector.
'I expect to see quite a significant shift over the next two weeks. We have to act very fast,' Masimov said.
'I think over the next two weeks we will be able to defuse clots related to the lack of credit in the economy, settle ссылка скрыта through the distressed asset fund, boost banks' capital and pour additional liquidity into the economy.'
Last month, the government said it would inject $5 billion into the country's four largest banks to stave off potential ссылка скрыта stemming from the crisis.
Under the plan, the banks are due to sell stakes to the government in a partial nationalisation deal that has raised concerns among some equity investors whose stakes are to be diluted in the transaction.
Masimov said the government had hired Credit Suisse (nyse: ссылка скрыта - ссылка скрыта- ссылка скрыта) and JPMorgan to act as consultants on recapitalisation issues, and Citibank to help it with the state distressed asset fund.
Overall, the government plans to inject a total of $15 billion this year into the economy. Despite the measures, economic weakness continues to persist.
The government expects economic growth to slow to 5.3-5.5 percent this year after averaging about 10 percent since 2000. The International Monetary fund sees growth at 4.5 percent.
Echoing some of these worries, Fitch cut its sovereign rating on Kazakhstan on Monday by one notch to BBB-, the lowest investment-grade level.