(L-R) Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrive for a group photo during the Caspian Sea Littoral States summit in Tehran on October 16, 2007. Caspian Sea states declared on Tuesday they would not let their soil be used for an attack on any of them, an apparent response to speculation the United States could resort to force in its nuclear row with Iran. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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Oil prices have begun to fall from record highs; Gazprom and Venezuela have signed an oil-exploration deal; Kazakhstan has plans to expand its control over energy.
MOSCOW, July 3 (UPI) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev plans to visit the Caspian region to discuss oil and gas pricing mechanisms as well as pipeline projects, officials said.
WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) -- The global energy market nervously contemplates flat production and rising prices. Kazakhstan's Kashagan Caspian Sea offshore field is the largest find of the last 30 years; after years of cost overruns and legal controversy, the project is slated to begin production in 2011 and will provide Kazakhstan with its largest single source of hard currency when fully operational.
ASTANA, Kazakhstan, May 14 (UPI) -- Lithuania is interested in developing energy cooperation with Kazakhstan, said Lithuanian Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas.
WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- As Kazakh oil exports continue to rise, Turkey is seeking to position itself as a major transit hub for Kazakh hydrocarbons. Despite Turkish aspirations, however, a number of obstacles exist to Kazakhstan diversifying its export routes to include Turkey.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Awash in oil revenues, the Kazakh government is now to spend some of its lucre on a pressing defense need that its military planners have overlooked since independence in 1991 -- a navy.
Call it the "battle of the canals." Both Russia and Kazakhstan are promoting rival projects to increase the Caspian's access to the Black Sea and from there, the world's oceans.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- While most visitors to Kazakhstan are dazzled by the oil-fueled construction boom, an equally significant town is rising on the eastern shores of the Caspian.
ALMATY, Kazakhstan, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- The former son-in-law of Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, now in Austria, has been sentenced in absentia to 20 years in a Kazakh prison.