[A-List] Kazakhstan: oil stampede & the wild east

[Mark Jones]

>
> Oil money threatens to make killing fields of Kazakhstan
>
> 'Wild east' could end the west's dependence on Opec but at a heavy cost
>
> Paul Brown in Atyrau, Kazakhstan
> Wednesday December 4, 2002
> The Guardian
>
> The largest oil find for more than 20 years - almost the size of
> the world's
> biggest, the Ghawar field in Saudi Arabia -

Ghawar is at least ten times bigger than Kashagan. According to both BP and
Exxon, Kashagan probably has 7-9bn barrles, not the 40bn Brown speaks of. He
obviously knows something the rest of us don't. The entire Caspian basin
probably holds less than that.

Mark