Results of the audit of KazTransOil JSC

Inspectors of the Atyrau Department of the Industrial Safety Committee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Kazakhstan conducted an inspection of hazardous production facilities of KazTransOil JSC located at the fields of Kara-ARNA, Kok-ARNA, PSN Karaton of the Zhylyoy district and at the Matin field of the Kyzylkuginsky district of the Atyrau region.

The main oil pipeline "UZEN-Atyrau-Samara" was commissioned in 1970. Oil is transported from fields located in the Atyrau region to the Atyrau Oil Refinery and for export via the UZEN-Atyrau-Samara trunk oil pipeline. In 2001, the Tengiz-Novorossiysk oil pipeline of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium-K JSC was put into operation. Also, JSC "KazTransOil" operates the Atyrau oil pumping station, which receives oil through the pipelines "Uzen-Atyrau", "kEnkiyak-Atyrau", "Monkeys-Atyrau". The volume of transported oil is 42 million a year.

According to the results of the audit, 13 violations of the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of industrial safety were identified. The inspectors have drawn up instructions on the elimination of the detected violations and initiated cases of administrative offenses under the first part of Article 298 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.