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NCPOC boss meets governor before leaving post

NCPOC boss meets governor before leaving post

As previously reported the NCPOC managing director will be changed on July 1. In place of Hans Bakker, another Shell top manager Arjan van Dijk is coming. May 23 2013, 11:44 6 167 views

Arrest in Makat: police wounds suspect + Relatives' story

Arrest in Makat: police wounds suspect + Relatives' story

May 20, the village of Makat, officers of law enforcement agencies used service weapons when apprehending a local citizen suspected of committing a serious crime. May 21 2013, 15:41 4 190 views

KMG Kashagan BV bookkeeper accused of tax evasion

KMG Kashagan BV bookkeeper accused of tax evasion

Atyrau department of financial police has launched a criminal proceeding into evasion of tax and other mandatory corporate payments to budget in relation to the accountant of KMG Kashagan BV. May 21 2013, 10:11 4 418 views

Atyrau traffic accident kills six people

Atyrau traffic accident kills six people

Six people left dead and five others injured and were taken to hospital after a traffic accident in Atyrau Oblast. May 20 2013, 11:30 2 816 views

Public figure about Bergei Ryskaliyev - I believe my eyes, not ears

Public figure about Bergei Ryskaliyev - I believe my eyes, not ears

"All the noise in our oblast now, in newspaper articles in all media, is about Bergei Ryskaliyev, the former governor of Atyrau Oblast," says Rakhymzhan Otarbayev, writer, playwriter, merited figure of the Republic of Kazakhstan May 20 2013, 09:40 5 387 views

Managing director to be replaced at Kashagan on June 1

Managing director to be replaced at Kashagan on June 1

North Caspian Production Operations Company (NCPOС) Managing Director is expected to be replaced effective June 1, reports azh.kz, citing KazTAG. May 17 2013, 13:20 4 561 views

Atyrau people demand dissolution of parliament

Atyrau people demand dissolution of parliament

Activists in the city of Atyrau have put forward a demand to dissolve the government in a letter addressed to the country president Nursultan Nazarbayev. May 17 2013, 12:07 2 996 views

Help finpol - get bounty

Help finpol - get bounty

Three residents of Atyrau Oblast received monetary reward - 121,170 tenge each - for communicating corruption crimes. May 17 2013, 11:44 2 856 views

House, food and mobile communication of expats paid illegally in Kazakhstan - labor agency

House, food and mobile communication of expats paid illegally in Kazakhstan - labor agency

During the labor laws compliance audit of some oil producing companies in Aktobe several violations were found May 17 2013, 09:38 3 416 views

Over 500 illegal workers detected in Atyrau

Over 500 illegal workers detected in Atyrau

On May 13-17 police conducted an operative-preventive action “Illegal Worker” in Atyrau Oblast. May 16 2013, 18:19 3 064 views

Expert: Kazakh government may buy stake in ConocoPhillips to sell it on more favourable terms

Expert: Kazakh government may buy stake in ConocoPhillips to sell it on more favourable terms

The Kazakh government may buy a stake in ConocoPhillips to sell on later, but on more favourable terms, Kazakh political analyst Daniar Ashymbayev said on Wednesday. May 16 2013, 16:01 3 412 views

Saiga sanctuary

Saiga sanctuary

Saktapbergen Alipkayyirov, a deputy head of territorial forestry and hunting inspection, says the last time his officers saw saiga tatarica within the borders of Atyrau oblast was October 2012, near the village of Azgir. It was a rare view of the Volga-Ural species, a one-time numerous type of animals [28,000 heads]. May 16 2013, 11:47 3 727 views

First invalid from gas sector

First invalid from gas sector

Three years ago we wrote about the woman who suffered from an accident at the Tengiz oil and gas field on July 2, 2005 (Ak Zhaik, dd. 15.04.2010, “Tengiz doesn't believe the tears or the history of one poisoning”). Gulbanu Abdullaeva, who was then an employee of one of subcontracting companies of TCO, virtually became an invalid. But it took her eight long years to prove it. May 15 2013, 16:02 3 732 views

Day that “shook” Selstroi city district

Day that “shook” Selstroi city district

Early Sunday morning on May 12, people residing along Azzatyk avenue near Selstroi city district were woken up by clattering noise of vehicles transporting bulky industrial modules. Later we found out that it was new equipment delivered to Atyrau Refinery, to be more exact, to the Aromatic hydrocarbons production complex (KPA). May 15 2013, 11:49 5 736 views

Leaflets supporting Tsarnaev brothers appeared in Atyrau

Leaflets supporting Tsarnaev brothers appeared in Atyrau

Leaflets expressing support for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have appeared in Atyrau. May 14 2013, 19:04 3 757 views

Tender Bids became nearer

Tender Bids became nearer

An insignificant small percent of Kazakhstan content in major oil and gas projects is a sore subject for local businesses. One of the reasons of such state of affairs is that Kazakhstan companies do not have international certificates which can grant them rights to participate in tenders. Recently, with NCOC's asssitance 16 local companies obtained international cetification. May 14 2013, 12:34 3 193 views

Agip no longer master of situation - Kuanov

Agip no longer master of situation - Kuanov

During the recent visit of Daniyar Yerenchinov, Chairman of Environmental Regulation and Control Committee under Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Environmental Protection, to Atyrau, it was stated that after commissioning of new oil and gas facilities, the volume of emissions in Atyrau, which is dramatic already, will double. About some aspects of the issue we spoke to the head of Atyrau environmental protection department, Yerbol Kuanov. May 14 2013, 10:06 4 530 views

Naval emergency unit to be established on Caspian Sea - Minister Bozhko

Naval emergency unit to be established on Caspian Sea - Minister Bozhko

A marine emergency unit will be created for the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea, said Vladimir Bozhko, Kazakshtan's minister of emergency situations at a sitting in Majilis, Kazakh parliament's lower chamber, writes Bnews. May 13 2013, 16:03 2 877 views

I will stay in Boston until court makes decision - father of arrested Kazakh

I will stay in Boston until court makes decision - father of arrested Kazakh

Court hearing of UMass Darthmouth students - Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov - will not be conducted on May 14, as previosly mass media reported, but postponed for a month, Azamat's father, a businessman from Atyrau and a member of city council, Amir Ismagulov over the phone told Ak Zhaik. May 13 2013, 09:28 4 393 views

ETERNAL FLAME OF VICTORY: Kazakhs hold the memory of heroes and victims of Great Patriotic War, and try to maintain the historical truth about it.

ETERNAL FLAME OF VICTORY: Kazakhs hold the memory of heroes and victims of Great Patriotic War, and try to maintain the historical truth about it.

Victory Day in Kazakhstan is a holiday that is celebrated at the highest level, which means its great significance for Kazakhstan. Despite the fact that our country for over two decades has gone through its sovereign development, we, unlike some of the other nations of the former Soviet Union, did not think it possible to give up the memory of the war, to review its results and value. May 11 2013, 16:15 6 353 views

Floral Tribute in Victory Park (Photos)

Floral Tribute in Victory Park (Photos)

“Year after year the number of our war veterans coming to pay floral tribute to Victory Park grows smaller and smaller,”- said someone sadly in the crowd. I also noticed that this year the number of war veterans considerably decreased compared to the previous one. Some of them died, some just physically cannot walk to lay flowers at Eternal Flame… May 10 2013, 11:12 3 600 views

Waste disposal leaves Kashagan first oil deadline under question

Waste disposal leaves Kashagan first oil deadline under question

Kashagan project, which CNN Money recognized as the most expensive energy project in the past 40 years [$116bn], has grown heavier by another $65mln. NCOC, the consortium, will have to spend this much on construction of liquid process waste cleaning units, previously ‘forgotten’ in the design. 75% of the wastes are formation waters containing poisonous substances. May 10 2013, 08:45 3 507 views

Die Hard Soldier

Die Hard Soldier

It wasn’t easy for me to get hold of the Grandad for taking an interview. He was “hardly accessible”. His schedule was very tight: 90-year old veteran of war and oil industry and, since recently, newlywed Kourmanbai Dosymbetuly (or Kurmanbai-ata) is either staying out or, on the contrary, giving party in his house. I arrived to Akzhar village on Friday afternoon. I opened the door of the small tidy house and was immediately enveiled with clouds of “beshbarmak” - meat a la Kazakh. Just as I thought, Grandad again was entertaining guests in his house! May 9 2013, 06:18 4 030 views

On the steep banks walked Katyusha…

On the steep banks walked Katyusha…

In Atyrau on the Victory Day eve in eleven points of the city at one and the same time the famous wartime song “Katyusha” composed by Matvei Blanter with lyrics from Mikhail Isakovsky was sung. Such a peculiar flashmob initiative belongs to the public association “Zheruyik Cultural Fund”. May 8 2013, 18:03 3 351 views

Egg throwing contest held in Saraichik

Egg throwing contest held in Saraichik

May 7, the village of Saraichik, to the north of Atyrau, hosted an egg throwing competition for the Cup of Andrei Tsukanov, a public activist famous for egging Labor Minister Serik Abdenov during a press conference in Almaty on April 26. The minister fell under public displeasure for promoting unpopular retirement system reform in Kazakhstan. May 8 2013, 12:26 3 948 views