LUKOIL SIGNED CONTRACTS – FOR WEST QURNA-2 FIELD DEVELOPMENT IN IRAQ LUKOIL Mid-East Ltd (West Qurna-2 project operator) signed several major contracts for West Qurna-2 field development in Iraq according to the tender results. The contract with the Samsung Engineering (Korea) sets out 29 months to design 5 well pads with 67 development wells, 5 […]
Archives for 22/03/2012
2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit – Message from Central Asia
nCa Commentary Ashgabat, 22 Mar—The second Nuclear Summit will be held 26-27 March 2012 in Seoul. The first summit took place in April 2010 in Washington DC. The Seoul summit where leaders from 53 countries and 4 international organizations are expected to gather will collectively represent the 80% of global population and 90% of world […]
Nowruz: The soul of Central Asia culture
nCa Commentary Ashgabat, 22 March 2012 (nCa) — The countrywide celebration of Nowruz, the spring festival, started 21 March in Turkmenistan. The main event was held at the foothills of Kopetdag Mountain, some 45 km east of Ashgabat. It was a great privilege for the foreign diplomats and journalists to get invited to this unique […]
We [Don’t] Take Care of Our Own
Ben Tanosborn A generation ago Bruce Springsteen was socio-serenading us with what soon was to become the iconic song, “Born in the USA.” And now, seven presidential elections later, he’ll likely be sending his message with the song, “We Take Care of Our Own.” Although the message in 1984 was inconceivably misconstrued and misappropriated by […]
Challenges and Response
General Mirza Aslam Beg, Former Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan It is a day of reckoning for us, to recollect the failings of the past, and to carve-out a new destiny for the nation. No doubt Pakistan has faced serious challenges to its security, mainly due to foreign aggression in the region and our collusion […]