ASTANA, Kazakhstan, September 20. Chairman of the Management Board of KazMunayGas (Kazakhstan's national oil and gas company), Magzum Mirzagaliyev, held negotiations with representatives of the US State Department in New York, Kazmunaygas told Trend.
The meetings were held with Department of State Bureau of Energy Resources (ENR) Assistant Secretary Geoffrey Pyatt and Assistant Secretary of State and Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu.
The parties discussed ways to strengthen cooperation between Kazakhstan and the US in the fields of energy and combating climate change.
"Climate change issues are important for KazMunayGas. We have committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent by 2031 (from 2019 levels). I would like to thank the US government for the constructive dialogue on this issue as well as for the development of cooperation in the energy sector," he said.
The volume of oil and gas condensate production at KazMunayGas from January through July 2023 increased by 10 percent, reaching 11,860 tons.
The volume of oil transportation also increased by 5 percent to 39,309 tons. The volume of processing of hydrocarbon raw materials at Kazakh and Romanian refineries increased by 4 percent to 10,109 tons.