The Industrial Safety Department of the Emergency Situations Department in Mangystau Region has launched an unscheduled inspection at the facilities of Tenge Oil&Gas LLP, which operates the Tenge oil field. This was reported by Qazaqyia.kz citing Kursiv Media.

Inspectors will check whether the company's management has eliminated previously identified violations.

Currently, specialists are studying the compliance of the submitted reporting data with the actual state of affairs in production. Also, the quality of the LLP management's implementation of safety comments is being checked.

"The results of the inspection will show the enterprise's readiness for further safe operation of production facilities," the Industrial Safety Committee noted.

If it turns out that the violations have not been eliminated, the company will be brought to administrative responsibility in accordance with the law.

The previous inspection of the enterprise was conducted in 2023. Then specialists inspected 30 facilities, including a gas point, an oil collection point, an oil treatment unit, a chemical laboratory, and wells.

Based on the results of the control, inspectors identified 27 violations in the field of industrial safety and issued an order to eliminate the identified violations.

In the 2010s, Tenge Oil&Gas belonged to Kazakh billionaire Timur Kuanyshev. He managed the Tenge and South Mangyshlak fields through TNG Holding. Now the composition of the founders has changed.

According to kompra.kz, the direct owner of TENGE Oil & Gas LLP is also TNG Holding LLP. Both structures are headed by Chen Qingjun. The holding itself belongs to two legal entities.

In turn, the field itself is associated with the large Chinese oilfield services corporation Zhongman Petroleum and Natural Gas Group (ZPEC). On the official ZPEC website, Tenge is listed as one of the corporation's main foreign assets. According to the Ministry of Industry of Kazakhstan, oil and gas reserves at this field will last for the next 24 years.

Earlier, Kursiv wrote that violations were identified at the operator of the largest oil field in Kazakhstan.