An agreement was reached in the row about how best to develop the giant Kashagan oilfield .

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The Kazakh government announced Monday that it was suspending operations at its Kashagan oilfield for three months because Eni, the leader of a group of oil companies including ExxonMobil, Total, Royal Dutch Shell and CononoPhillips, which have stakes in the offshore project, had violated environmental regulations.

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The Tengiz problem is a mere puddle next to the troubles at Kashagan in the remote North Caspian Sea, the world's largest oilfield discovery in the last three decades.

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