Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 15

12-April-2010

CASPIAN

Kazakhstan Moves To Examine KPO Foreign Staff Work Permits

In what is increasingly beginning to look like an orchestrated effort to secure a shareholding in Karachaganak Petroleum Operating (KPO), the Kazakh government has launched an investigation into how some KPO staff obtained their work visas and is threatening several with expulsion. KPO, which operates the giant Karachaganak gas and condensate field in northwestern...