Excerpt from report by state-owned Kazakh news agency Kazinform Atyrau, 5 June: The extraction of oil in [western] Tengiz field [developed by a consortium of companies led by Chevron] will reach 25m tonnes in 2009, the head of state, Nursultan Nazarbayev, said at a ceremony of putting into operation new projects to expand capacity at Tengiz.

ASTANA. May 28 (Interfax) - The number of Tengizchevroil workers hospitalized with food poisoning in the Atyrau province in western Kazakhstan has reached 197, the Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry said on Wednesday. "As of 6 p.m.

Excerpt from report by privately-owned Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency Astana, 22 May: A total of 115 builders of a gas pumping plant, employed by the CAPE and Senimdy Kurylys companies, suffered food poisoning in Tengiz settlement of Kazakhstan's (western) Atyrau Region today, the press service of the Kazakh Health Ministry has said.

Excerpt from report by Russian news agency ITAR-TASS Astana, 4 October: Kazakhstan's authorities have imposed a fine of 609m dollars on an international consortium led by the [US oil] company, Chevron, for violating national environmental legislation.

ATYRAU. Aug 20 (Interfax) - A regional environmental watchdog in Kazakhstan has filed a lawsuit seeking a fine of 74.4 billion tenge ($593.3 million) from TengizChevroil, a joint venture in which Chevron holds a 50% stake.