Oil Price Drop Could Spark Kashagan Tensions

摘要

Kazakhstan's ill-starred Kashagan oil field could operate at a loss if oil prices remain low when it finally comes on stream by 2017, 12 years later than initially planned, one Kazakh analyst says. He added that this could create further tensions between the state and the operating group, which includes Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Total, Eni and China National Petroleum Corp.