Oil polluted territory in Kazakhstan - 200 thousand hectares

Atyrau. March 29. Kazakhstan Today - According to the employees of the Republican Centre of Biological Researches, the oil-polluted territory in Kazakhstan is about 200 thousand hectares, the agency reports citing Director of Atyrau Branch of Ecological Biotechnology Center, Dr. Sci. Biol. Erik Shorabaev.

"The soil has become impregnated with oil at the depth of a few tens of centimeters up to ten meters. The petropolluted land in Atyrau is being cleared by a domestic product Bakoil.

"The domestic product Bakoil, created in the laboratories of Almaty Institute of Microbiology and Virology last year, has been used in the Atyrau area, on the two sites near the oil deposits Zhanatalap and Kosshagyl.

"Ten - twenty five years are required for natural restoration of the petropolluted soil, the use of the biological product allows reducing this process until one-two years. The changes in the structure of the polluted soil occur due to the bacteria containing in Bakoil, which literally decompose paraffin and aromatic fraction of oil," E. Shorabaev explained.