According to Bloomberg, shareholders of the Karachaganak oil and gas project have lost an international arbitration dispute with the Kazakh government, meaning they may be obliged to pay $2 to $4 billion in compensation to the country. The court sided with the Kazakh government, which argued that the Karachaganak project…
Gold prices rose above $5,000 an ounce for the first time, continuing a historic rally that has pushed the metal up more than 60% in 2025, according to the BBC. This surge is occurring amid growing geopolitical and financial uncertainty, driven by tensions over Greenland and concerns about U.S. trade…
Laramide Resources Ltd., a Canada-based uranium producer, has announced that it is withdrawing from its uranium project in Kazakhstan due to legislative amendments adopted at the end of 2025. Under the new rules, foreign investors have fewer rights, with priority given to the national uranium company Kazatomprom. «Laramide to abandon…
Shares of Kazatomprom, the world’s largest uranium producer, continue to reach new highs, driven by surging demand for reliable electricity and a constrained global supply of uranium, according to financial consultant Daur Imanmadirov. On Jan. 20, 2026, Kazatomprom shares on the Kazakhstan Stock Exchange rose to 37,600 tenge ($74) per…
Oil production at the Tengiz and Korolevskoye fields in Kazakhstan has been temporarily suspended due to power supply disruptions, according to operator Tengizchevroil (TCO), a subsidiary of U.S.-based Chevron. Tengiz is the country’s largest oil field. TCO said the shutdown was prompted by an incident affecting parts of the power…
KazMunayGas (KMG), Kazakhstan’s state-owned oil and gas company, rerouted 300,000 tons of oil in December 2025 amid restrictions on operations at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). The company said the oil was redirected through the KazTransOil pipeline system for delivery to Germany, China, and via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) route, as…
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has extended until Feb. 28 a license allowing negotiations for the sale of Lukoil International GmbH, the entity that owns Russian oil giant Lukoil’s foreign assets. The extension was reported by Interfax. Any deal, however, must comply with U.S. national security…
The Kazakh government has announced the start of a new phase of mineral exploration, committing 240 billion tenge, about $500 million, over the next three years to geological research. For comparison, that figure exceeds total investment in the sector over the past 15 years, which amounted to $469 million, according…
In a parliamentary inquiry, the Ak Zhol faction claimed that the government is unprepared for complex international disputes surrounding the country’s largest oil and gas projects. Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov responded to the claim. What is the gist of the complaint? According to the party’s estimates, the country is losing…
Finance ministers from the G7 and several other major economies met in Washington to discuss ways to reduce their dependence on rare earths and other critical minerals from China, including possible price-stabilization mechanisms and new partnerships to develop alternative supplies, Reuters reported. The meeting, convened by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott…
TotalEnergies has announced that Chinese firms Shanghai Institute of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering and Shanghai Electric Group, along with Kazakhstan-based GCD Partner, have joined a consortium of contractors tasked with designing and building the 1-gigawatt Mirny wind farm in Kazakhstan’s Zhambyl region. Project ownership and partnerships TotalEnergies holds a 60%…
Kazakhstan’s copper-mining giant Kazakhmys is preparing for a change in shareholders, the company announced. Agreement reached between current leaders According to the statement, Kazakhmys President Vladimir Kim and Chairman of the Board of Directors Eduard Ogay have mutually agreed to transfer ownership. The formal sale and purchase agreement is expected…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has authorized Rosneft-Shell Caspian Ventures Limited — a joint venture between Russia’s Rosneft and Britain’s Shell, which holds a 7.5% stake in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) — to conduct transactions involving its share in the pipeline. The order was published on the Russian government’s official…
Kazakhstan plans to deliver 50,000 tons of oil to China in December 2025 directly from the Kashagan field, following damage to the Caspian Pipeline Consortium terminal caused by a Ukrainian drone strike in November, according to Reuters. The shipment will move through the Atasu-Alashankou pipeline. The oil is produced at…
Meirzhan Yussupov, CEO of Kazatomprom — Kazakhstan’s state-owned uranium producer — says it is appropriate for the national company to automatically receive a 90% stake in uranium mining projects upon contract renewal, regardless of the foreign partner’s previous share. Amendments advance in parliament Amendments to Kazakhstan’s Subsoil and Subsoil Use…
The latest attack on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) by Ukrainian naval drones — and the resulting partial shutdown of its terminal in the Russian port of Novorossiysk, which carries more than 80% of Kazakhstan’s oil exports — underscores how vulnerable Kazakhstan’s oil exports are due to the country’s systemic…
The partial shutdown of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) terminal in Novorossiysk, Russia, after a Nov. 29 attack by Ukrainian naval drones, highlights Kazakhstan’s ongoing export vulnerabilities. The terminal, which handles over 80% of Kazakhstan’s oil exports, now has its Offshore Mooring Terminal-3 (OMT-3) out of service, while OMT-2 has…
Kazakhstan’s Agency for the Protection and Development of Competition has proposed selling up to a 50% stake in KMG International N.V. (a subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s national oil and gas company KazMunayGas, or KMG) through an open, two-stage bidding process in 2026-2027. The company is included on the national list of…
Microsoft and Westinghouse Nuclear are exploring ways to use artificial intelligence to accelerate the approval and construction of nuclear power plants in the U.S. But a new analysis from the AI Now Institute, cited by 404 Media, warns that this approach could introduce serious safety risks. Generative AI as a…
Kazakhstan can supply nuclear power plants with uranium for decades, according to Gumar Sergazin, deputy chairman of Kazakhstan’s Agency for Atomic Energy. The country currently boasts about 1 million tons of natural uranium reserves, Sergazin reported at a recent Senate briefing. «Our uranium reserves will last for more than 60…
Kalamkas-Khazar Operating LLP (KKO), a joint venture equally owned by Russia’s Lukoil and Kazakhstan’s KazMunayGas (KMG), remains on the U.S. sanctions list, according to the PACE Telegram channel. At PACE’s inquiry, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said that no official request has been…
Kazakhstan has seen a steep increase in fuel prices since the start of 2025. According to the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), the price of motor gasoline rose 11.2% compared with December 2024, while diesel fuel climbed 9.2%. The pace of growth has outstripped all other member states of the Eurasian…
Christopher Eppinger, a former intern at KazMunayGas — Kazakhstan’s national oil company — has reportedly made a profit of more than $250 million reselling Russian oil. Between 2022 and 2025, his company sold oil worth nearly $2 billion, according to the Financial Times. Born in 1994 in a small town…
Kazakhstan’s PetroCouncil — an oil and gas industry association representing about 150 domestic oilfield service, engineering and manufacturing companies — has appealed to Prime Minister Olzhas Bektenov to protect local firms from what it calls dumping by Chinese companies in Kazakhstan’s petrochemical sector. Crowding out The council notes that foreign…
