Kazakhstan, Astana, Aug.13said./ Trend K. Konyrova /
Kazakhstan revealed 69 illegal inserts to oil pipelines belonging KazMunayGaz overt the first six months of 2009, the company told Trend .
Some 69 illegal inserts to the gas pipelines of the company's East and West branches were registered in the first half of 2009. The amount of damage has exceeded 236 million tenge (150.7 tenge is $ 1), the company said.
The number of similar crimes increased over the past five years. If in 2005 the company revealed 43 facts of illegal inserts to West and East branches of KazMunayGas, in 2008 their number almost doubled: on pipelines of the West Branch the figure made up 91 and on the pipelines of East Branch - 131.
Generally, the company had registered 362 facts of illegal inserts to the pipelines in 2004-2009, the same source said.
Illegal inserts and fight with them is one of the topics which will be discussed by oil workers of different countries in the upcoming Kazakhstan Energy Week to be held in September, 2009, the Kazakh Association of Oil-Gas and Energy Sector Organizations KazEnergy said.
Misappropriation of "black gold" remains a problem, which the concerns both producer countries and consumer countries in the era of high demands, the organizing committee said.
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