The Competition Awarding Committee of the RK Ministry of Health and Social Development selected the Shymkent Oil Refinery as the best enterprise in the nomination “For Contribution to Ecology”.
A solemn winner award ceremony took place within the framework of the Industrialization Day with participation of the Head of the State – Nursultan Nazarbayev – in the capital’s Kazmedia Ortalygy Center. The highest award was received from the hands of RK Prime Minister Bakhytzhan Sagintayev by Aslan Mynbayev, Vice-President for Modernization and Development, PKOP LLP. This high award esteems efforts of the entire refinery team. 
PetroKazakhstan Oil Products LLP pays significant attention to the enhancement of its environmental management. Thus, in 2009 it introduced ISO 14001:2004 International Environmental Management Standard. In 2015, based on audit results, a decision was made to confirm the certificate of conformance of its management system with requirements of ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 standards. 
The company has a system to monitor emissions of contaminants to the environment (atmospheric air, water and soil resources, plants, snow cover and radiation situation) and the condition of the natural environment. Besides, the refinery permanently carries out biological reclamation of contaminated soil areas on refinery sites. Recycling of secondary oil refining waste (oil sludge) and pyrophoric compounds is in place.
PKOP LLP also signed a memorandum for business social responsibility in the region for general improvement and landscaping of the oblast, city and district. Annually refinery workers plant trees in the buffer zone around PKOP. This year they planted 908 trees. 
For the record, the refinery was already awarded a President Award for its environmental policy: in 2011 PetroKazakhstan Oil Products LLP won a Golden Paryz Award in the nomination “For Contribution to Ecology”.