Kazakhstan’s Oil Production Up 6.4% In First Half

    Kazakhstan produced 39.2 million tons of oil in the first half of 2010, 6.4 percent more than in the same period of 2009, Statistics Agency Chairman Alikhan Smailov announced.     Natural gas production rose 5.1 percent to 18.5 billion cubic meters, oillandgaseurasia.com quoted Smailov as saying.     Gasoline production surged 32 percent to...