PETROKAZAKHSTAN INC

Moien! ich habe noch ein paar PKZ-Aktien in meinem Portfolio und leider noch nichts von meiner Bank gehört, was mit denen jetzt passiet... Hat jemand Infos dazu??? Danke!

Oct. 17 (Bloomberg) -- China National Petroleum Corp., the nation's biggest oil company, agreed to sell a $1.4 billion stake in PetroKazakhstan Inc. to the government in a bid to win support for an agreement to buy the Kazakh oil producer. China National Petroleum, or CNPC, signed a binding agreement to sell a 33 percent stake in PetroKazakhstan to KazMunaiGaz, the Kazakh state oil and gas company, according to an e-mailed statement today from European Press Relations, which distributes information on behalf of the government. Asel Tabynbayeva, a spokeswoman for KazMunaiGaz, in an interview confirmed the report and said the company will issue its own statement tomorrow. CALGARY (CP) - A $4.2-billion-US offer for Calgary-based PetroKazakhstan Inc. from China National Petroleum Corp. is under attack from authorities in three countries. But despite threats emerging from Kazakhstan, Russia and India, PetroKazakhstan shareholders are widely expected to approve the deal in a vote Tuesday. In order to get "resolution and final closure," PetroKazakhstan says it needs a positive vote from shareholders and authorization from an Alberta court. However, the Kazakh presidential news service said Monday that President Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed legal changes giving his government pre-emptive rights on all strategic resources in the central Asian country. The amendments announced on the weekend give the Kazakh government the right to limit the transfer of property, and are aimed at pre-empting changes of ownership that occur through the purchase of shares listed on exchanges. http://news.yahoo.com/s/cpress/20051017/ca_pr_on_bu/petrokazakhstan_5

Die Regierung ein Gesetz zu erlassen ,nach dem der Staat das recht hat beim Verkauf von Ölfirmen zu intervenieren.Das Gesetz bedarf nur noch der Zustimmung des Upper Houses und des Presidenten nachdem es schon beschlossen wurde von den Abgeordneten.Auffällig ist ,dass jetzt offenbar KazMunaiGas einen Anteil an Petrokazakhstan haben will.Das neue Gesetz betrachtet Ölvorkommen als strategisch wichtig und soll die Eigentumsrechte limitieren.Auch die Forderung Lukoils nach den anderen 50% von Turgai Petroleum ,für das es Anrechte hat,wie es behauptet ,lässt das Geschäft mit CNPC unsicher erscheinen. http://asia.news.yahoo.com/051005/3/28foi.html http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cpress/20051006/ca_pr_on_bu/petrokazakhstan_10

CNPC deal may be under threat from Kazakh legislation, Lukoil court action .Kazakhstan's lower house today voted to allow the state to intervene in the sale of foreign-held stakes in oil companies and limit property rights for "strategic resources," Reuters reported. The bill requires upper house approval and the president's signature before becoming law. The law's passage comes a day after Kazakhstan's Energy and Resources Minister Vladimir Shkolnik said state-owned KazMunaiGaz was in talks to obtain a stake in PetroKazakhstan (PKZ) as the government looks to gain "strategic control" of the company. Meanwhile, Lukoil said today it had submitted an arbitration claim in Stockholm on its pre-emption rights to buy 50% of Turgai Petroleum, its 50-50 JV with PKZ. The Russian major added that it was confident of its first right of refusal to PKZ's 50% stake now that the latter is being sold. The chances of the government derailing CNPC's $4.2bn ($55 per share) takeover of Canadian-registered PKZ appear to be rising and the timing with Lukoil's Stockholm claim looks ominous. While there remains a reasonable chance the government will arrange the acquisition of "strategic control" of PKZ with CNPC after the Chinese company has completed its takeover, we advise investors to fix profit at current levels as the tide of events appears to be turning.