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Kazakh-US Oil Collaboration Deepens

Ukrainian attacks on Kazakhstan’s primary oil export route intensify, changing equation

Feb 06, 2026
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By: Albert Otkjær
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On January 28, Kazakhstan submitted a request to the US to buy out assets from the sanctioned Russian oil company Lukoil. Just five days earlier, the Kazakh Ministry of Energy held talks with its American counterpart on expanding bilateral energy cooperation – a meeting that took place as Kazakhstan joined Donald Trump…

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