Study On Legal Issues Of Energy Investment In Kazakhstan

With the Strategies of the Silk Road Economic Belt, the economic collaboration between Central Asian countries and China will more and more closely. Among the Central Asian countries, the Kazakhstan Republic is the main energy partner of China which has 260 oil and gas fields and 50 tons of proven reserves. And the Kazakhstan Republic is most abundant energy resources in Central Asia area, ranking eighth in the world. However, due to the special and international of energy investment, foreign companies’s energy investment activities are often limited in Kazakhstan and even the government of Kazakhstan has made a law to regulate a specific investment and operation behavior. In this case, it is important for foreign investors to use legal weapons to protect their own interests and to avoid loss. Energy investment in Kazakhstan should not only strictly in accordance with the law, but also to adjust the policy in time according to the changes in the law. Then investors could set up a good image and provide the basis for a long-term stable development. This paper based on Kazakhstan energy investment legislation and basic principles, analyzed investment access, obligations, labor employment and dispute settlement of legal problems and so on. For the problem in Kazakhstan of foreign investors investing in energy, try to propose the solution way. It will be meaningful for guiding the Kazakhstan energy investment.