Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Sauat Mynbayev of Kazakhstan

Mynbayev is seen as a close and important aide to president Nazarbayev, one that has a reputation of being able to get the job done.

Mynbayev was born on November 19, 1962.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov 17 (UPI) -- The war in Georgia shows the geopolitical significance of the regional energy sector as Kazakhstan moves hesitantly in pipeline quarters.

As stated in the press service of the RK Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, during the meeting Sauat Mynbayev expressed concern related to systematic violations by separate foreign mineral developer и subsurface users of national legislation conditions and Northern Caspian project realization dates delays.

var RTR_ArticleBlurb = " ASTANA, June 28 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan has agreed to put off the start of production at the huge Kashagan oilfield until 2013, Energy Minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Saturday.

2013, Energy Minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Saturday.

Kazakh Energy and Minerals Minister Sauat Mynbayev said that by 2012 as much as 392 million barrels of oil per year could pass through the Kazakhstan Caspian Transportation System (KCTS), which will link Kazakh Caspian oil fields to Baku, Azerbaijans capital via a system of shuttle tankers.

Kazakh Energy and Minerals Minister Sauat Mynbayev said Friday that as much as 163 million barrels of oil per year could pass through the 500-mile Kazakhstan Caspian Transportation System, which crosses the Caspian seabed to Baku, Azerbaijans capital.

Mynbayev said several pipeline arteries would bring more Kazakh oil to the international market.

Global Insight Perspective SignificanceRussian Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko and Kazakh Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Sauat Mynbayev said that they had reached an agreement this week to bring throughput capacity on the 1,510-km pipeline to 67 million tonnes (1.

LN), has proposed postponing the start of production to 2012-2013 from 2011, Kazakh Energy Minister Sauat Mynbayev was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying Monday.

They (foreign oil companies in the consortium) want to postpone (the start of production)," Mynbayev was quoted as saying, adding that 2012 and 2013 were being considered as possible years for the start of production at Kashagan.

ASTANA, February 7 (RIA Novosti) - Kazakhstan plans to increase oil output up to 70 million metric tons in 2008, a 4% increase year-on-year, the country's energy minister, Sauat Mynbayev said on Thursday.

var RTR_ArticleBlurb = " ASTANA, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan's Kashagan oil field will further delay its production start-up to the end of 2011 from the latest estimate of 2010, Energy Minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Monday.

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ALMATY, Kazakhstan - Energy-rich Kazakhstan could cut crude oil export tariffs by one-third in an effort to ease the burden on domestic producers, Energy Minister Sauat Mynbayev said Monday.

The duty is adjusted every quarter in line with global oil prices, but Mynbayev has said revisions to the tariff could in future be made on a biweekly or monthly basis.

consortium of oil majors have set January15 as new deadline for talks over the fate of giant Kashagan oilfield, Kazakh energy minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Monday.

ASTANA (Reuters) - Kazakhstan and an Eni-led consortium of oil majors have set January15 as new deadline for talks over the fate of giant Kashagan oilfield, Kazakh energy minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Monday.

As for environmental complaints lodged by the Kazakh Environmental Protection Ministry (KEPM) and the Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry (KESM) against the Eni group, Mynbayev said he saw no reason in them to suspend work on the project as a whole.

press conference in the capital, Astana.

once the projects costs have been paid.

By Worldbulletin staff Russian news agency reported Kazakhstan is close to the completion of the legal registration of documents on joining the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, Kazakh Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Sauat Mynbayev said on Wednesday at a meeting of the Kazakh-Azerbaijani intergovernmental commission for economic cooperation.

ASTANA • US company ExxonMobil is against raising Kazakhstan's stake at the expense of other members of the consortium developing the huge Kashagan oilfield, Kazakh Energy Minister Sauat Mynbayev said yesterday.

ASTANA, Dec 25: Kazakh Energy Minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Tuesday his country was seeking a 16.

US energy major ExxonMobil is holding up a deal to resolve a dispute over the massive Kashagan oil field being developed by a Western-led consortium, Kazakh Energy Minister Sauat Mynbayev said on Monday.

Basically, we've agreed with everyone except ExxonMobil," Mynbayev said in the capital Astana, a ministerial adviser, Dinara Shaimardanova, confirmed to AFP.

Mynbayev said Kazakhstan did not like Exxon's offer.