AKSAI, Western Kazakhstan Oblast, 8 December 2006 – Karachaganak Petroleum Operating B.V. (KPO) has announced that the personnel of Unit 3 / Gathering / KOTS have completed one year without a lost time incident (LTI) and with no recordable injuries.

Commenting on the event, KPO General Director, Roger Fox said: "KPO actively promotes a culture where the ownership of safety is shared across the organisation. KPO aims to improve its HSE performance through compliance with HSE standards, managing workplace risks and careful planning and monitoring of our operations".

KPO Unit 3 Manager, Tom Hanson, added: “This achievement signifies KPO personnel’s commitment to best safety, health, and environmental practices and standards. Our employees take care for their own and each other’s safety, and work very hard to ensure that each task is completed safely. This demonstrates that we are moving closer to our vision of an incident-free workplace."

This safety record has been made possible through KPO's ongoing investment to raise the awareness of safe working practices for all Karachaganak personnel. KPO introduced a Behavioural Based Safety process in 2004, which encourages all employees to observe safety behaviour, provide positive feedback for safe work, and immediately help to correct all safety problems that have been observed. In recent years, KPO has implemented a number of such successful safety initiatives, integrated into a 14-point HSE Improvement Plan.