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actualOil Export of Kazakhstan:In the years to come, Kazakhstan plansto sharply increase oil export to consolidateits contribution into the global energysecurity.Kazakhstan is one of the world’s principalhydrocarbon exportersUnlike other well-established oil productioncenters, like Norway, Russia,Mexico, Great Britain, a numberof the Gulf States, - Kazakhstan will reachthe peak oil and gas condensate in the nextdecade. It means Kazakhstan is the onlynon-OPEC state with a great potential to increaseoil production with an eye to the longtermoutlook.Thanks to the expanded production of hydrocarbonsand the implemented policy onthe export diversification, within 2000s Kazakhstanmanaged to sharply increase thescope of oil and gas condensate supplies toexternal markets.Thus, in 2001 oil and gas condensate exportscomposed 32.38MT; in the last year theyreached 71.2MT, which is more than twofolds. With this, production increased from40.1MT to 79.7MT, which proves a keepingforward expansion of hydrocarbons exportagainst production.In the current year, export of oil and gas condensatemay stand at 72MT with the productionrate of 81-81.5MT. The dynamics of thefirst half of 2011 affirms these expectations:January-June oil export scopes increased by13.1% compared to the corresponding periodof the last year.Kazakhstan has a number of trade partnerson oil and gas condensate supplies, whichcomes under notice.In particular, last year Kazakhstan suppliedoil to 33 world states, the largest amongthem were Italy (15.94MT), China (9.73MT),France (7.32MT) and Netherlands (6.99MT).This shows that independent Kazakhstansucceeded in the diversification of oil suppliesconsidering a leading role of the Europeanconsumers in the total scope of theexported oil.Hydrocarbons export: planned growthTheperspectives for the export growth ofthe Kazakhstani hydrocarbons seem tobe stable.Notably, in compliance with the strategicplan of the Ministry of Oil and Gas of RKfor 2011-2015, the scope of oil export in 2015will reach up to 84MT, which is 13MT higherthan the last year level. The calculationsof the Ministry of Oil and Gas of RK alsospeak for the growth of the oil export scopes48 № 5 (49), 2011