Those responsible for accident at Atyrau Oil Refinery will be punished - Prime Minister

Those responsible for the emergency halt at the Atyrau Oil Refinery (ANPZ LLP) and Mangistau nuclear power engineering plant will be held accountable, Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Alikhan Smailov said Tuesday, El.kz reports.

“At this point it was essential to restore smooth operations at all enterprises and ensure power supplies to consumers” Kazakh PM said.

Alikhan Smailov instructed

• the authorities of Mangistau region to take measures to modernize the Mangistau nuclear power engineering plant’s equipment.
• the Ministry of Energy together with KEGOC were tasked to ensure proper work of the western power hub.

The Head of the government also added that special commission was set up at the instruction of the Head of State to investigate the causes of the emergency halt at the Atyrau oil refinery and the emergency outage at Mangistau nuclear power engineering plant on Monday evening.