BAKU, Azerbaijan, Apr.9
By Nargiz Sadikhova – Trend:
Tengizchevroil (TCO) operating on Kazakhstan’s Tengiz oil field has informed its shareholders on the decision to postpone its annual maintenance turnaround at Tengiz until 2021 given the current COVID-19 situation, representative of TCO’s parent company – Chevron, told Trend.
The representative said that TCO continues to respond to the global COVID-19 situation.
“TCO has implemented measures aimed at minimizing its workforce exposure to the virus, at both the Tengiz field and Atyrau office locations. TCO will continue to monitor changing conditions and adjust these measures if required,” said the rep.
Chevron said that measures taken are designed to protect the health and safety of company’s workforce, while preserving safe and reliable production operations and maintaining critical path activities of the integrated Future Growth Project-Wellhead Pressure Management Project (FGP-WPMP).
“As of today, critical activities in Tengiz are not impacted and TCO’s production operations continue in normal mode. Meanwhile, TCO confirms that an employee of Aspan Kashagan working at Vaternas Camp in Rotational Village tested positive for COVID-19,” said Chevron's representative.
The latest data said that the total number of coronavirus patients confirmed in Kazakhstan is 764, including 42 patients in Atyrau region.
The first two cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Kazakhstan among those who arrived in Almaty city from Germany on March 13, 2020.
On March 15, 2020, Kazakhstan’s President Kassym Jomart Tokayev signed a decree introducing an emergency state in Kazakhstan due to the coronavirus outbreak, which came in force from 08:00 (GMT +6) on March 16 and will last till 08:00 April 15, 2020.
Currently, quarantine regime has been imposed on the majority of Kazakh regions and major cities, including in Atyrau region.
By a decision of State Commission on Provision of Emergency State under the president of Kazakhstan, quarantine regime has been introduced in Kazakhstan’s Nur-Sultan and Almaty cities at 00:00 (GMT +6) on March 19, 2020.
The outbreak of the coronavirus began in the Chinese city of Wuhan (an international transport hub), at a fish market in late December 2019. The number of people killed by the disease has exceeded 88,000. Over 1.4 million people have been confirmed as infected. Meanwhile, over 332,000 people have reportedly recovered.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11. Some sources claim the coronavirus outbreak started as early as November 2019.
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