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Kazakhstan Pipeline Policy in the Caspian Region

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This article considers promising trends ın Kazakhstan's oil and gas infrastructure development and defines problems related to the issues of using the existing pipelines. At this point, the author notes that the key values for subsequent increase of transport and logistics facilities in Kazakhstan are both implementation of the multi-vector policy in the sphere of pipeline routes diversification and targeted development of cooperation with foreign partners in the oil and gas industry. The article also notes that the geopolitical features of the Caspian region have a direct impact on the formation of country’s strategic course in the field of pipeline transport.

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Parkhomchik, L.A. (2015). Kazakhstan Pipeline Policy in the Caspian Region. In: Zhiltsov, S., Zonn, I., Kostianoy, A. (eds) Oil and Gas Pipelines in the Black-Caspian Seas Region. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 51. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2015_406

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