Kazakhstan: Energy Cooperation with Russia - Oil, Gas and Beyond

Publication Date	January 2006
Publisher	GMB Publishing
Product Type	Report
Pages	56
ISBN Number	1905050410
Product Code	GMB

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Summary

This important study explains how Russia, with its private sector and policy makers working in tandem, has exerted a significant amount of control over Kazakhstan's vast natural resources and its economic freedom. It looks at the way Russia and Kazakhstan agreed to divide the Caspian Sea shelf and how Kazakhstan has managed to maintain good relations with Moscow overall, despite its insistence on exporting energy resources to China and Europe directly and its hopes to export through Iran. This series of reports establishes for the first time the confluence of Russian foreign policy with the acquisition of foreign energy assets by Russian entities. Nine specific country profiles focus on the oil, gas, electricity and nuclear power industries. Each report written by an author of international standing, explains how Russian foreign energy downstream mergers and acquisitions are transpiring to consolidate the new Russian empire.

Content

Russia and Kazakhstan in an energy-starved world
The geo-economics of post empire: from nomadic steppe to world-class energy exporter
- From empire to independence
- Russia's phantom pains of empire
Russia-Kazakhstan: pipeline politics
- the Shanghai cooperation agreement and other foreign-dominated organizations
- Caspian Sea demarcation
Oil and gas export challenges
- current export routes
- the Chinese factor
- other challenges
- environmental factors
Major oil projects
- Tengiz field
- Caspian Pipeline Consortium
Marine exploration
- the Kurmangazy project
- the Tsentralnaya and Khvalynskoye fields
- the Atash project
- the Tyub-Karagan field
- the Imashevskoye field
Gas projects
- transit of Russian and central Asian gas through Kazakhstan
- development of a gas pipeline infrastructure 'Central Asia - Centre'
- purchasing and marketing Kazakhstan's natural gas
- the outlook for Kazakhstan's gas
Establishment of the gas alliance
- a Russian-led 'gas OPEC'
Future issues of cooperation and competition
- Kazakh gas supply to China
Electricity
Coal industry cooperation
- the Kazkhstan-Russia coal connection
Uranium mining and nuclear fuel cooperation
Conclusions
Endnotes