Ei pelkästään putken läpikulkevan tavaran blokkaus, mutta räjähdys jalostamolla - lainaan linkatun Moscow Timesin artikkelin käännöksen kokonaisuudessaan:
Trouble continues to rain down on Kazakhstan's oil industry after President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev declared his commitment to friendly relations with Europe and proposed boosting hydrocarbon supplies to the EU to help deal with the energy crisis.
On Tuesday, the court of Novorossiysk stopped the work of sea terminals through which Kazakh oil was exported, and on Wednesday an explosion occurred at the largest oil field in Kazakhstan.
According to Interfax, at about 09:55 local time, a pipe exploded in the Zhylyoi region at the Tengiz field, whose reserves are estimated at 3.2 billion tons. As a result, two workers born in 1985 died, three more people were injured.
An investigation has been launched into the incident under part 3 of article 156 of the Criminal Code of Kazakhstan (violation of labor protection rules), the police department of the Atyrau region reported.
The field located in the West of Kazakhstan is being developed by the Tengizchevroil company, which is 50% owned by the American Chevron and another 25% by ExxonMobil. A $45.2 billion production expansion project has now been launched at Tengiz, which was scheduled to be completed in 2023.
Kazakhstan ranks 11th in the world in terms of oil production - 1.7 million barrels per day. 89% of this volume is exported, and most of it goes through the pipeline leading to Novorossiysk. The largest buyers of oil from Kazakhstan last year were Italy (17.9 million tons), the Netherlands (8.2 million tons) and France (4.5 million tons).
Kazakhstan is ready to "use its hydrocarbon potential" to help European countries stabilize the situation in the non-energy market, Tokayev said on Monday during a conversation with European Council President Charles Michel.
Kazakhstan is “committed to developing sustainable ties with the EU”, the largest trading partner for the national economy, and is ready to play the role of a “buffer market” between East and West, he added.
Two weeks earlier, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Tokayev refused to recognize the DPR and LPR, and also criticized Russian deputies and propagandists.
Kazakhstan remains a country friendly to Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday. He stressed that the authorities of Kazakhstan did not make any decisions on joining the sanctions against the Russian Federation.
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Hyvä muistaa tämäkin, "kristinuskon puolustaja Putinin" mies Tsetseniasta julistaa alla sodan olevan ennen kaikkea osa pyhää sotaa, jota käydään islamin suojelemiseksi. Ne ketkä ovat hurahtaneet uskomaan ryssän satuja, olisi korkea aika herätä. Ryssälle kelpaa petikaveriksi kuka vain joka suostuu ottamaan heiltä rahaa ja tekemään työtä heidän eduksi - ei ole väliä mitä ideologiaa tai poliittista suuntaa edustavat.