JSC National Company KazMunayGas (Kazakhstan) says Rompetrol Rafinare supports staff training under Kashagan

/KASE, December 9, 11/ - JSC "National Company KazMunayGas" (Astana), whose bonds are officially listed at Kazakhstan Stock Exchange (KASE), has provided KASE with the following press-release of December 9, 2011: quote JSC NC "KazMunayGas" announces that Rompetrol Rafinare (oil refining arm of The Rompetrol Group), carried out an extensive program of technical education of nine operators of "Agip KCO Kazakhstan", the company in charge of the first stage of project "Kashagan", the largest oil field discovered for the last 40 years. - It is very important to us to share with our Kazakh colleagues our know-how and experience we have gathered over almost 30 years of working in this field, the more so The Rompetrol Group is part of the National Company KazMunayGas. We also trained staff of Atyrau oil refinery and Pavlodar oil chemistry plant, says Arman Kairdenov, general director of Rompetrol Rafinare. The task of the programme "Training at workplace" was to introduce the nine operators to the oil refinery flow at "Petromidia" platform, the most important asset of The Rompetrol Group. At the same time, the programme was designed so as to allow mastering specific knowledge regarding production process, control of key parameters, safety issues and labour protection, environment protection, as well as routine tasks of operators at DAV (Vacuum and Atmospheric Distillation Unit), DGRS (DGRS - Gas Desulphurization and Sulphur Recovery Unit) and water purification. Specialists from "Agip" were selected with regard to their skills, knowledge and abilities, as well as based on their ability to learn and distribute what they learnt to their colleagues in Kazakhstan. At the end of each stage the operators underwent a series of theoretical and practical tests, and their scores were the highest. Moreover, they had to solve simulated incidents such as emergency shutdown of an oil refinery, launch and other failures. Enterprise North Caspian Operating Company B.V. (NCOC) operates in the name of seven members of the consortium (KazMunayGas, Eni, Shell, ExxonMobil, Total, ConocoPhillips and INPEX), as an operator appointed in accordance with the Agreement on Sharing Products of the Northern Part of the Caspian Sea dated 1997. Agip KCO is in charge of the first stage of Kashagan project. JSC "National Company KazMunayGas" 19 Kabanbai batyr ave., Astana 010000 Republic of Kazakhstan tel. +7 (7172) 976340, fax: +7 (7172) 976329 www.kmg.kz unquote [2011-12-09]