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...government decides it wants more control over its black gold. The company balks - and finds itself accused of tax evasion. Though it sounds like Russia's Yukos saga, this scenario is playing itself out in neighboring Kazakhstan between the government of authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbayev and British energy giant BG Group. On July 19, citing the results of a March audit, Kazakhstan's financial police accused the company's local subsidiary, BG Karachaganak, of failing to pay $5.4 million in customs duties on liquid natural gas it produced between 2001 and 2003 and sold to buyers in Russia. BG says...
...Paying The Piper As the International Energy Agency warned that OPEC's spare daily capacity may fall a million barrels short of demand during an Iraq war, China moved to cut its dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Two state-owned firms agreed to buy British BG Group's $1.2 billion stake in the Caspian, raising the chance of a pipeline to China...
...BG: The worst is that there are no good groupies. Not many people will sleep with us just because we are in a rock band. Also, there's virtually no good music here...
...BG: We will whip that werewolf with a belt and also rock the kasbah like a hurricane. Lots of dancing sweaty people. I grew a moustache for the occasion...
...BG: We have a 7-inch (record) and are coming out with a live CD and an LP, all on English Muffin records, distributed by Swill records. And also we'll tour Europe...