Atyrau refinery attracts Kazakhstan and foreign experts not to pay 24-billion-dollar fine

Atyrau. KAZINFORM - Environmentalists brought sanctions against Atyrau refinery that refutes the fact of emitting 693.7 thousand cubic meters of gas in the atmosphere. The estimated environmental penalty, in the ecologists' view, is about 23 billion 776 million 284 thousand tenge. The refinery management disagree with ecologists' statement and Kazakhstan and foreign experts are invited to do a survey.

"In order to ensure an objective verification of technological units of the plant, Atyrau Institute of Oil and Gas, the Institute of Oil and Chemical Processing of the Republic of Bashkortostan , JSC " Giprogazoochistka " LLP, " Yokogawa Electric Kazakhstan", "Kazakh Institute of Oil and Gas" were attracted, the press service of the Atyrau refinery reports. In addition, the refinery appealed to the Atyrau Prosecutor's office and the Ecology department of Atyrau region to inspect the refinery again because they disagree with the results of the first verification of the gas combustion in the volume of acid 753.1 693 m3.