Collapse of the Caspian oil myth: there is no oil!

Since the end of last year there have been some significant events that attracted Kazakh media attention to the subject of Caspian oil. It is a question of two artificial islands’ ice blockade of the Kashagan oil field in December 2012, withdrawal of two investors from the Caspian shelf, two earthquakes in the Caspian Sea occurred on March 10, the recent accident at one of the drilling rigs at Kashagan and suppression of the truth about Caspian oil. Withdrawal of the American company from the Kashagan oil field with its projected giant hydrocarbon deposit on the eve of the start of commercial oil production (from June 2013) adds spice to the situation.

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Causes of oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and fires in Russia

Two unprecedented events in the history of the world occurred in 2010: oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and wildfires in Central Russia. Both events shock not only by scale of environmental disaster, human losses, economic damage and consequences, but also by obscure, sometimes mystical, phenomena that accompanied these catastrophes. These disasters have riveted the world community’s attention: their consequences will have a detrimental effect on the ecology and economy not only of the two States but, to a greater or lesser extent, of many countries around the world.

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