NUR-SULTAN, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Kazakhstan and Russia have
agreed on compensation of $15 per barrel for the contamination
of Kazakh crude shipped through the pipelines of Russia's
Transneft, Kazakh Energy Minister Kanat Bozumbayev
told Reuters on Thursday.
The Central Asian nation aims to produce 90 million tonnes
of oil next year with no maintenance breaks at its major fields,
Bozumbayev said at an energy conference.
Kazakhstan does not rule out that its long-running dispute
with the foreign shareholders in the Karachaganak project will
be settled out of court, Bozumbayev added.
(Reporting by Mariya Gordeyeva and Alla Afanasyeva; writing by
Olzhas Auyezov; editing by Jason Neely)