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KAZMUNAIGAZ: Kazakhstan's National Oil and Gas Company

KAZMUNAIGAZ: Kazakhstan's National Oil and Gas Company.

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By Martha Brill Olcott
Published on Mar 5, 2007

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This paper was written for the joint James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy/Japan Petrolium Energy Center Policy report, The Changing Role of National Oil Companies in International Energy Markets, published by the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.

Click here to read full report. Click here to read more NOC case studies and related research.

About the Author

Martha Brill Olcott

Former Senior Associate, Russia and Eurasia Program and, Co-director, al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia

Olcott is professor emerita at Colgate University, having taught political science there from 1974 to 2002. Prior to her work at the endowment, Olcott served as a special consultant to former secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger.

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