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Tonight: Earth Hour with a Candle-Lit Dinner

Tonight: Earth Hour with a Candle-Lit Dinner

Millions of people around the world switch off their lights for Earth Hour at 8.30pm (20:30) in their local times on the last Saturday of March each year. In 2013, Earth Hour occurs one week earlier, on March 23. March 23 2013, 15:05 2 917 views

Nauryz Celebration in Atyrau (Photos+Video)

Nauryz Celebration in Atyrau (Photos+Video)

March 23 2013, 14:33 8 926 views

Kashagan Public Hearings: the Power of Talking

Kashagan Public Hearings: the Power of Talking

Atyrau Oblast Governor’s presence among the members of the presidium became a surprise at the public hearings on environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the Kashagan Development Experimental Programme (EP) held in Atyrau on March 20. March 22 2013, 15:04 4 007 views

Meltwaters result in tap water outage in Uralsk

Meltwaters result in tap water outage in Uralsk

Communal services claim they had to cut tap water supply in order to pump out meltwater in the city. March 20 2013, 15:20 3 051 views

Atyrau traffic limited on Nauryz

Atyrau traffic limited on Nauryz

Due to celebration of Nauryz Holiday, traffic in Atyrau will be limited for a few days, advised the city administration. March 20 2013, 14:34 3 581 views

Kashagan vulnerable to oil spills

Kashagan vulnerable to oil spills

March 14-15, Almaty hosted the international conference “Industrial Safety in Fuel and Energy Complex. Onshore and Offshore Oil Spills”. The key topic was the start of oil production at the field of Kashagan scheduled for June. March 20 2013, 12:30 4 384 views

Kashagan hearings - March 20

Kashagan hearings - March 20

Ahead of start of oil production scheduled for next June, NCOC - North Caspian Operating Company B.V. - is to hold public hearings on the outcomes of environmental impact assessment of Kashagan's experimental development program. March 18 2013, 17:01 3 163 views

Asyk competition to take place on Nauryz. Winner takes laptop.

Asyk competition to take place on Nauryz. Winner takes laptop.

Ak Zhaik newspaper invites teenagers to participate in the annual Altyn Saka competition - the game of asyk - to take place on March 22. March 18 2013, 11:54 6 728 views

Strong wind tears roofs off

Strong wind tears roofs off

Sharp fitful wind came crushing down on the city of Atyrau on March 16 bringing a lot of trouble to townspeople. March 18 2013, 11:17 3 076 views

Prosecutors confirm gap in salaries

Prosecutors confirm gap in salaries

Tasked by General Prosecution Office, the oblast prosecutor's office, labor department and employment coordination department investigated into the disproportion in labor remuneration of Kazakh and foreign citizens working in international companies. March 18 2013, 09:39 4 135 views

Invite top managers only, replace the rest with locals - proposal to labor ministry

Invite top managers only, replace the rest with locals - proposal to labor ministry

Kazakhstan's labor and social protection ministry [www.enbek.gov.kz] has posted a letter from someone named Egemberdy laying down proposals to settle the painful problem of large difference in the salaries of locals and expatriates in Kazakhstan. March 15 2013, 09:36 5 996 views

World class oil and gas training center opens in Atyrau

World class oil and gas training center opens in Atyrau

APEC – Atyrau Petroleum Education Center – opened its doors on March 11 to train, retrain and upskill oil and gas workers. Following the grand opening its first hundred students sat down to desks. March 14 2013, 15:09 9 940 views

West Kazakhstan marks Korisu

West Kazakhstan marks Korisu

March 14, Kazakhs in the west of Kazakhstan have started celebration of Korisu, a holiday of seeing each other after the winter. March 14 2013, 14:08 6 918 views

OSC strikers at Kalamkas field return to work

OSC strikers at Kalamkas field return to work

To recall, a few days ago, employees of Oil Service Company, a member of AktauNefteServis LLP, refused to turn up to work. March 13 2013, 12:37 3 515 views

Max Petroleum started drilling at Zhana Makat of Atyrau oblast

Max Petroleum started drilling at Zhana Makat of Atyrau oblast

«Max Petroleum» company began drilling of the production well in "Zhana Makat" field in the old oil region of the Atyrau oblast. March 13 2013, 12:04 4 077 views

The World's Oldest Carpet Story: The Pazyryk

The World's Oldest Carpet Story: The Pazyryk

Every carpet tells a story. But few tell one as fascinating as the oldest intact carpet ever found. It is the Pazyryk carpet, discovered frozen in a tomb beneath the Siberian steppe. March 13 2013, 07:58 30 008 views

OSC workers striking over low salaries

OSC workers striking over low salaries

Employees of one of the largest contractors in the region, Oil Service Company (OSC), refused to turn up to work at the field of Kalamkas in Mangystau Oblast. March 12 2013, 09:28 3 259 views

Tengizchevroil to mark 20th anniversary

Tengizchevroil to mark 20th anniversary

March 11, Atyrau Oblast governor Baktykozha Izmukhambetov received Scott Davis, managing director of Eurasia Unit of Chevron. March 11 2013, 18:51 5 312 views

When is the big sea quake: Why TCO do not provide us data

When is the big sea quake: Why TCO do not provide us data

March 11, Kazakh National Data Center [www.kndc.kz] announced a 4.4 earthquake took place in the Caspian Sea. March 11 2013, 18:03 3 533 views

4.4 magnitude earthquake shakes Caspian

4.4 magnitude earthquake shakes Caspian

A 4.4 magnitude on the Richter scale earthquake happened in the Caspian Sea, 334 kilometers from the city of Aktau March 11 2013, 14:56 3 094 views

97% of Atyrau residents speak fluent Kazakh

97% of Atyrau residents speak fluent Kazakh

97% of Atyrau residents speak Kazakh fluently; 92% and 6.7% are proficient in Russian and English respectively, says Kairat Tarbayev, a press secretary of the regional administration. March 11 2013, 10:04 2 756 views

D Island: Equipment failure (+NCOC comment)

D Island: Equipment failure (+NCOC comment)

As reported by the oblast emergency department, a technical incident took place during well re-entry arrangement at the man-made island D of Kashagan field in the Caspian Sea. March 7 2013, 17:10 9 013 views

Atyrau tries universal police

Atyrau tries universal police

Soon Atyrau Oblast will see an experiment - introduction of universal police - joint squads of traffic and patrol police officers. March 7 2013, 11:02 2 787 views

Military IDs available within month

Military IDs available within month

As we reported before, one month military training courses for those who never saw duty will open in Atyrau. March 6 2013, 15:40 3 244 views

Atyrau Oblast to have two more plants

Atyrau Oblast to have two more plants

As a part of the 2013 Industrialization Map, two projects worth $6.5bn will be completed in Atyrau Oblast, reports Kazinform. March 6 2013, 15:09 2 917 views