Power supply returning to Kazakhstan oil refinery, pipeline after outage
(Reuters) - Power supply is returning in Kazakhstan after a significant outage affected an oil refinery, major oilfields and the CPC export pipeline, the Central Asian nation's energy ministry said on Monday.
Power supply to the Atyrau oil refinery has been restored, the ministry said, while Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) also said that power is back at one of its key pumping stations, called Tengiz.
Fuel production at the Atyrau oil refinery in western Kazakhstan was completely halted due to a power outage, which triggered an emergency halt, a refinery official told Reuters.
Energy ministry said the affected units at the refinery will be back to operations only after thorough checks.
Kazakh news website Zakon.kz reported that an emergency outage occurred at the Mangystau power plant, which also supplies power to the country's largest oilfields such as Tengiz and Kashagan.
Kazakhstan's part of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC-K) earlier said in a statement it had been left without power, forcing back-up sources to be used.
"Oil is being received from suppliers as usual," CPC-K said in the statement.
Atyrau city's power distribution company said the Tengiz and Kashagan fields had switched to autonomous power sources after the outage.
Kazakhstan's energy ministry earlier said the country had sufficient gasoline stocks and that the Atyrau plant outage, which coincided with maintenance works at two other Kazakh refineries, would not lead to a fuel shortage.
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