In an interview with journalists, the head of the Kazakh national oil and gas company KazMunayGaz, Kairgeldy Kabyldin, talks about the strategy of developing oil export routes from Kazakhstan and Kazakhstan's participation in several international oil projects.

AKTYUBINSK (Kazakhstan). Sept 22 (Interfax) - Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev has asked his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev to commission their governments to complete the expansion of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC).

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Aktobe, 22 September: Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev asks his Russian counterpart, Dmitriy Medvedev, to instruct the governments [of both countries] to solve the issue of expanding the Caspian pipeline consortium (CPC).

MOSCOW. Sept 5 (Interfax) - Russia has reached an agreement with Oman on the purchase of the country's 7% stake in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), Deputy Energy Minister Stanislav Svetlitsky told journalists on Friday. "We have accepted their offer for the whole 7%.

By Anonymous International news for oil and gas professionals For up-to-the- minute news, visit www ngjonline.com General Interest - Quick Takes CGES: World needs more OPEC crude The world needs more crude oil priced at a level that makes it economic to refine, said analysts at the Centre for Global Energy Studies (CGES), London.