Made in Germany | Oil from Kazakhstan

The Kazakh oil fields are hotly contested. Western and Russian oil concerns both want to access the huge reserves. Kazakhstan has been playing hard to get, and trying to make deals with both. In addition, the former Soviet republic is looking into alternative oil export routes that do not cross Russia, such as the BTC pipeline. The problem is that Russia has been putting Alma-Ata under pressure. It wants to regain its dominance over Central Asia. The state-run oil company KazMunayGaz is not interested in public relations, and rarely allows cameras on its production sites. But Christoph Wanner managed to get a look at Kazakhstan's oilfields.