Kazakhstan Approves Regulations on Estimating Damages Caused By Violation Of Subsurface Protection Requirements

The Kazakhstan Government has approved regulations on estimating the damages caused by violation of subsurface protection requirements, Kazakhstan Today reported lately.

Effective for all subserface users, the regulations were developed in accordance with Kazakhstan State Laws on "Environment Protection", "Subsurface Management" and "Oil Resources".

Nineteen paragraphs of the regulations include  general requirements for subsurface protection and order of  estimating damages created by violation of subsurface  protection requirements.

In case of a violation, the authorised board of state officials have the right to estimate and seek damages  including divergency of  oil-and-gas   deposit exploitation, divergency of gas condensate field exploitation, abnormal losses of valuable components during refining, subsurface pollution   by dangerous chemicals, biomaterials, radioactive materials and waste products.

Furthermore, damages will be estimated in case of unapproved gas flaring during  fields development.

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