According to Almas Kudaibergen, the chairman of the Association of Oil Service Companies of Kazakhstan, more than 80,000 skilled professionals are going to lose their jobs because of layoffs at the Tengiz oil field in 2022-2024.
«Losing people is not what we’d like to do. We are talking about 200,000 people – oil industry workers and their families. Our solution is to search for new projects. We thought of Russia first, since a lot of Kazakhstani enterprises are present there, but unfortunately, the war has put a lot of projects on pause. Another direction is the oil...