An unscheduled inspection has been launched in the Mangystau Region at the facilities of Tenge Oil&Gas LLP, which operates the Tenge oil field. Inspectors from the Regional Industrial Safety Department of the Emergency Situations Committee will check whether the company's management has eliminated previously identified violations, according to infohub.kz.

Specialists have already begun verifying whether the reported data matches the actual situation at the production site. They are also assessing the quality of implementation of safety recommendations issued after the previous inspection.

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

If violations are not addressed, the company will be held administratively liable in accordance with the law.

The previous inspection of the enterprise was conducted in 2023. At that time, inspectors checked 30 facilities, including a gas point, an oil gathering point, an oil treatment unit, a chemical laboratory, and wells. The inspection revealed 27 industrial safety violations, and the company was issued an order to eliminate them.

In the 2010s, Tenge Oil&Gas belonged to Kazakh billionaire Timur Kuanyshev, who managed the Tenge and South Mangyshlak fields through TNG Holding. Currently, the composition of founders has changed. According to kompra.kz, the direct owner of Tenge Oil&Gas LLP is TNG Holding LLP, and both entities are headed by Chen Qingjun. The holding itself is owned by two legal entities: Caspian Innovator Limited, a private company whose sole founder is Jiang Kuifeng and whose first director is Tarabukina Daria Andreevna; and China Rising Energy International Kazakhstan, a joint Kazakh-Chinese company owned by Rising Energy International Middle East DMCC, registered in the Dubai Free Zone (UAE), with Jiang Kuifeng as its first director.

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

Earlier, Kursiv reported that violations were found at the operator of Kazakhstan's largest oil field.