The industry is pumping ever more oil and natural gas, but it is doing so with only about three-quarters as many workers as ...

and many of its oil-field workers are local Kazakhs. The anonymous engineer recounted going to Kazakhstan because of a preexisting arrangement between Microsoft and Chevron to help TCO oil fields ...

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Russian engineer Alex Barak has been coaxing oil out of the ground for a long time. Seventeen years ago, he was responsible for work at a particularly troublesome oil field in Kazakhstan.