OREANDA-NEWS. May 31, 2010. Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. (KPO) announced that at the annual BG Group Chairman’s Awards ceremony, KPO took the top honour collecting the winning award in the Environment category for its Eco Centre and the application of Best Available Techniques in Kazakhstan, reported the press-centre of KPO.

The BG Group Chairman’s Awards recognise excellence in health and safety, environmental management and corporate responsibility among BG Group assets all over the world. This year a total of 122 entries were received. The Awards ceremony was held in the Glasshouse at the Royal Horticultural Society’s garden at Wisley in the UK.

The Award winners were welcomed and congratulated by BG Group Chairman, Sir Robert Wilson.

BG Group Chairman, Sir Robert Wilson, commenting of the Awards said: “We were impressed by the range of entries which reflect our Business Principles and core business, and demonstrate how BG Group’s priority for managing risk is being implemented across the categories of Environment, Health, Safety and Social Performance.”

KPO General Director Giuseppe Pasi also congratulated KPO team for their success at the BG Chairman's Awards and thanked them all for the efforts accomplished to realize the Eco Centre.

Speaking about KPO’s winning entry, Guiseppe Pasi said: “KPO Eco Centre was built as part of our commitment to environmental protection and efficient use of natural resources.  We have implemented a robust waste management treatment process through which we can further improve our environmental performance and increase our operating efficiency.  KPO’s winning award in the Environment category is the recognition of our exceptional performance and initiatives.”

The Eco-Centre is a significant improvement in KPO’s ability to reduce waste production and improve waste treatment.  With the launch of the Eco-Centre in October 2009, KPO is now able, among other things, to recover and reuse expensive base oil, which composes 65% of the oil-based mud, and to separate base oil and water from cuttings, thus reducing the volume of waste deposited at the storage site.
 
KPO Eco Centre is a world class complex for recycling, treatment and disposal of drilling fluids and waste in an environmental friendly way.

The Eco-Centre consists of the Thermo-Mechanical Cuttings Cleaning (TCC) facility, which enables the safe and efficient treatment of oil base mud cuttings, the Liquid Mud Plant (LMP), the processing facility for mixing and treating of drilling mud, the Liquid Treatment Plant (LTP), which enables treatment of hydrocarbon contaminated water, recycling of brines used for work-over operations and reconditioning of water based mud used on top hole drilling operations, and the Rotary Kiln Incinerator (RKI), which is used to process oil contaminated soil and materials other than drilling cuttings.

Ongoing projects are a new Landfill site adjacent to the Eco Centre and a new General Purpose Incinerator for solid waste.