Crude and condensate production in Kazakhstan in January-October 2018 amounted to 74.5 million tons, Minister of energy Kanat Bozumbayev said on Tuesday.

Kazakhstan is the second largest trading partner of St. Petersburg, said parliamentarian of St. Petersburg at a meeting with the delegation of Almaty.

Akim of Akmola region Malik Murzalin and Khokim of the Syrdarya region Gofurzhon Mirzaev signed a framework agreement on cooperation between the regions.

In December 2018, citizens of about 150 countries will be able to take advantage of the simplified electronic visa (e-visa) regime, Tourism Industry Committee of Kazakh Culture and Sport Ministry told Trend.

A new regular bus run was launched between Chirchik (Tashkent region) and Almaty (Kazakhstan) on the evening of Nov. 14, the press service of the Uzbek Agency of Automobile Transport said in a statement.

Kazakh cement producer, SAS-Tobe Technologies, has increased its exports to Uzbekistan, Podrobno.uz reported.

In Kazakhstan, the September crude oil output recovered by 130,000 barrels per day to average 1.53 million barrels per day, mainly due to the return of production in the Tengiz field after the end of maintenance period, OPEC said in its Monthly Oil Market Report.

Kazakhstan and the World Bank eye new prospects of successful cooperation.

The growth of gross domestic product (GDP) of Kazakhstan in January-October 2018 amounted to 4.1 percent, said Timur Suleimenov, Minister of National Economy of Kazakhstan, Kazakh media reports.

Kazakhstan’s GDP is forecast to grow by 4 percent in 2018 and 3.5 percent in 2019 due to slower oil output expansion, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in its Transition Report 2018-2019.