Oil and gas design organisations in Kazakhstan: catalogue

A private engineering and design company based in Atyrau (K Caspian Engineering LLP, abbreviated KCE), founded in 2007 according to the company; by its own description, it offers engineering and design solutions for the oil and gas, energy and infrastructure sectors in West Kazakhstan. It carries out working (detailed) design for the operating Tengiz facilities under a contract with Tengizchevroil LLP: preparation and facilities of well sites, expansion of group metering units, flowlines and water lines, and upgrade of the equipment of the wastewater injection system. All of its projects confirmed by documents on the state public-hearings portal (2024–2025) were done for Tengizchevroil under a single contract; the company's site also shows Caspian Offshore Construction and ISKER Group among its clients. The design covers the process, piping, civil, electrical and instrumentation disciplines; pre-design and concept studies, FEED and project management are offered on the company's site without project examples.

Working (detailed) design for operating production facilities · Preparation and facilities of well sites and cluster pads · Expansion of group metering units, flowlines and water lines · Upgrades of wastewater injection system equipment, pump-house buildings · +2 more

Aksaigazproekt

Service companyAksai

A private design and survey company based in Aksai, West Kazakhstan Region (Aksaigasproject LLP), founded in 2001 according to the company; also according to the company, its design department has an office in Uralsk. According to the list of work on the company's site, most of its projects were done for the operating Karachaganak field: temporary pads for drilling and well workover, access roads, hook-up and connection of wells to manifold stations, in-field pipelines, and upgrades of process units and auxiliary facilities. The state public-hearings portal names the company as developer of environmental protection sections and reports on possible impacts for projects of Karachaganak Petroleum Operating (2025–2026) and as one of the developers of the operator's environmental-permit documentation (2022, 2024). According to the company, it also designs residential and industrial facilities, carries out engineering surveys, technical inspection of buildings and structures with expert opinions, and author and technical supervision, and provides industrial-safety training; its clients also include Zhaikmunai LLP (Chinarevskoye field) and Kondensat JSC. According to the company, it had 101 employees in 2024, 75 of them engineering and technical staff.

Working designs for operating facilities of the Karachaganak field (according to the company) · Environmental protection sections and reports on possible impacts · Emission-limit projects and environmental-permit documentation (as one of the developers) · Temporary pads for drilling and well workover, access and emergency roads (according to the company) · +2 more

Aktau Engineering

Service companyAktau

A private design company based in Aktau (Aktau Engineering LLP), classed as a small enterprise in the state procurement register; its design and survey licences were first issued in 2007, as stated by the organisation. According to the company, it prepares working designs for oil-field facilities in Mangystau — pads and hook-ups of production and injection wells, oil and gas gathering and in-field transport systems, metering units, tank farms, camps and utilities — as well as engineering and geodetic surveys, cost estimates and environmental protection sections for its own projects. The state public-hearings portal confirms two of its projects for Phystech II JSC at the Karazhanbas Severny field: a group working design for the construction of production wells (2019) and a working design for facilities of four wells being converted to injection (2021). In 2025 the portal names the company as developer of environmental documentation and of a working design for the uranium producer JV KATCO LLP. According to the company, it has also designed facilities at the Dunga, Zhalgiztobe, North Buzachi and Tenge fields; the list of completed projects on its site covers 2007–2023.

Working designs for well facilities: pads, hook-ups, conversion to injection · Group working designs for construction of production wells · Engineering and geodetic surveys · Environmental protection sections for projects · +2 more

A private design organisation based in Aktau (Caspian Engineering & Research LLP, abbreviated CER), registered in 2003 according to the company. It designs facilities for oil, gas and gas-condensate fields — oil and gas treatment units, gathering systems, reservoir-pressure maintenance and gas re-injection — and storage and transshipment facilities for liquefied gases and petroleum products; according to the company, also trunk pipelines and pump stations. Environmental design is a separate line of work: environmental impact assessments, reports on possible impacts, environmental protection sections and emission limits. Documents on the state public-hearings portal for 2022–2025 show the company as the design organisation of the Eskene LPG LLP liquefied petroleum gas separation plant in Atyrau Region, of the NDF KAZAKHSTAN LLP tank farm in West Kazakhstan Region and of a working design for Tepke LLP, and as one of the developers of projects for Tasbulat Oil Corporation LLP and Kom-Munai LLP and of environmental documentation for Karachaganak Petroleum Operating. According to the company, its portfolio also includes work for the Tengiz, Kashagan and Karachaganak projects and for the CPC expansion in 2004–2025.

Working designs for oil and gas field facilities · Design of oil and gas treatment units, gathering and pressure-maintenance systems · Storage and transshipment facilities for liquefied gases and petroleum products, tank farms · EIA, reports on possible impacts and environmental protection sections · +2 more

Caspy Engineering

Service companyAtyrau +1

A private design company based in Atyrau (ТОО «Каспий Инжиниринг»; its English name is Caspy Engineering LLP) with representative offices in Uralsk and Aksai; according to the company, it has been working since 2002. It prepares working designs for the operating facilities of oil and gas operators — upgrades of headers, wastewater systems and electrical equipment at Tengiz, a commercial oil metering unit for Karachaganak Petroleum Operating — as well as environmental documentation and individual technical designs for well construction. Documents on the state public-hearings portal show the company as general designer of Tengizchevroil LLP working designs of 2024–2026 and of a 2026 working design for Karachaganak Petroleum Operating, and as developer of well-construction technical designs at the Morskoye field for KoZhaN JSC (2022–2024). A considerable part of its documented work is civil and municipal design for public-sector clients in Atyrau, West Kazakhstan and Aktobe regions: schools, hospitals, housing, wastewater treatment plants. According to the company, it has also produced working designs for drilling pads and well access roads at Karachaganak and has worked for NCOC and Karabatan Utility Solutions.

Working designs for upgrades of operating oil and gas facilities · Wastewater systems, headers and electrical equipment of field facilities · Commercial oil metering units (as general designer) · Individual technical designs for well construction · +2 more

Engineering Centre (Aktau)

Service companyAktau +1

A private design company based in Aktau (ТОО «Инженерный центр» — 'Engineering Centre' LLP), working since 2001 according to the company. It designs facilities for oil and gas fields in Mangystau and Atyrau Region: well hook-ups, pads and roads, manifold stations, flowlines and in-field pipelines, power supply; according to the company, also group metering units, field gas and oil pipelines, tank farms, oil depots and industrial facilities. Hearing notices on the state public-hearings portal name the company as developer for these working designs: facilities of 60 wells at the North Buzachi field for Buzachi Operating Ltd (2025), facilities of seven wells of the Zhaiykmunaigas production unit for Embamunaigas JSC (2026), facilities at the Dunga and Tenge fields (2026), and a road and drilling pads for Tepke LLP (2022). According to the company, it designed 70% of the construction facilities at the North Buzachi field and 60% of the facilities at the fields of Emir-Oil LLP, as well as a Tenaris premium connection threading plant in the Aktau special economic zone; these statements carry no dates. As stated by the organisation, it holds a category I design licence; the licence number and date are not published on its site.

Working designs for oil and gas field facilities · Well hook-ups, pads and access roads · Manifold stations, flowlines and in-field pipelines · Power supply of field facilities · +2 more

ILF Kazakhstan

EPC / Engineering · Service companyAlmaty +1

Kazakhstan company of the international engineering group ILF Consulting Engineers (Austria and Germany) — ILF Kazakhstan LLC, with offices in Almaty (head office) and Atyrau. According to the company, ILF in Kazakhstan was established in 1994; the group's timeline lists a new Almaty office under 2004–2005 and the Atyrau office under 2019. According to the company, it provides design engineering, technical audits and project management consultancy (PMC) and holds a category I state design licence. The company reports that it is carrying out the FEED and detailed design for the next phase of the Beineu–Bozoy–Shymkent gas pipeline (1,600 km of pipeline and six compressor stations; 2025) and that in 2021 a joint venture it belongs to won a five-year NCOC framework contract for conceptual studies, pre-FEED and FEED. The Samruk-Kazyna procurement portal confirms consultancy contracts: project management for the Kenderli seawater desalination plant for Ak Su KMG (2022) and a technical audit for Intergas Central Asia (2021–2022).

FEED for trunk pipelines and compressor stations (according to the company) · Detailed design of pipelines and compressor stations (according to the company) · Conceptual studies, pre-FEED and FEED for upstream surface facilities (according to the company) · Project management consultancy (PMC) and owner's engineer services · +2 more

Kazakh Institute of Oil and Gas (KING)

Service companyAlmaty +1

Private design company in Almaty and the parent of an engineering group that includes NIPI Kaspiymunaigaz JSC (Atyrau), Kazgiproneftetrans Engineering Company LLP and the KazNIPIEnergoprom Institute JSC (both in Almaty). It was created by a Government resolution of 23 December 2002 as a state-owned closed joint-stock company formed from the state shareholdings in two institutes, and until 2015 was a subsidiary of KazMunayGas; two of its institutes — KazNIPImunaygas (Aktau) and NII Caspiymunaygas LLP (Atyrau) — moved to the KMG institute created in 2014 (now KMG Engineering LLP), and in 2015 100% of KING's shares were sold at an electronic auction, since when the company has been private. KING itself acts as general designer of refining, petrochemical and gas-chemical facilities and trunk pipelines, provides author supervision, prepares environmental documentation and carries out geological studies for subsoil users. Its clients in state registers for 2021–2026 include KMG PetroChem, MunaiTas, the Atyrau Refinery, the Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant, Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries and QazaqGaz NTC; together with Fluor, WorleyParsons and Kazgiproneftetrans it founded the KPJV joint venture for the Tengiz Future Growth Project, which was completed in 2025. Most of the group's staff work in the subsidiary institutes: according to filings in the state depository of financial statements, in 2025 KING itself had 64 employees on average and the group 1,070.

Feasibility studies, design-stage ("Project") and design-estimate documentation for refining, petrochemical and gas-chemical facilities · Design of trunk oil and gas pipelines · Design of external power supply for industrial facilities: substations and networks · Author supervision of its own designs · +2 more

Private engineering company in Almaty — a multi-sector design institute; it has been part of the private group of the Kazakh Institute of Oil and Gas JSC (KING) since 2017 and, according to KING's audited consolidated statements, is wholly owned by it. According to the company, it traces its history to 1974, to a special design bureau under Kazglavneftesnab, and from 1986 was the KazGiproNefteTrans state design institute; the present LLP was registered on 7 September 2004. It designs refining, petrochemical and chemical facilities and heat and power facilities and prepares environmental design documentation; according to the company, it also designs trunk oil and gas pipelines, field facilities, terminals and tank farms. State registers show it as general designer of the hydrogen production unit at the Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant site (2025) and as compiler of the environmental documentation for the second line of the Beineu–Bozoi–Shymkent gas pipeline (2026); together with Fluor, WorleyParsons and KING it founded the KPJV joint venture, the general contractor of the Tengiz Future Growth Project. According to the company, it has 500 employees.

Feasibility studies, design-stage ("Project") and working documentation for refining, petrochemical and chemical facilities · Design of trunk oil and gas pipelines, pump and compressor stations, crossings (according to the company) · Design of heat and power facilities: district boiler houses and heat networks · Environmental design documentation: impact reports, materials for environmental permits · +2 more

KazNIGRI

Service companyAtyrau

A privately owned petroleum geological exploration research institute in Atyrau; according to the company, it traces its history to the Ural-Emba research base of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR founded in 1946, has been called KazNIGRI since 1972, and a joint-stock company was created on the basis of the institute in 1998 and KazNIGRI LLP in 1999. According to the company, the institute plans and supports exploration, estimates reserves and resources, designs and analyses the development of onshore and offshore fields, prepares technical projects for well drilling, and carries out engineering-geological surveys, environmental design and laboratory studies of core and fluids. Public-hearing notices of 2024–2026 regularly name the institute as the project organisation for exploration projects and their addenda, technical projects for well construction, addenda to field development projects and liquidation projects with their environmental sections — for Buzachi Neft, Kazakhoil Aktobe, Kazpetrol Group, South-Oil, TethysAralGas and other subsoil users. A 2026 report published on the state portal gov.kz also cites the institute's re-estimation of reserves of the S. Balgimbaev field for Embamunaigas, approved by the State Commission on Reserves in 2014. Its testing laboratory is accredited until 29 November 2028 (register of the National Accreditation Centre); as stated by the organisation, it holds licences for design in the oil and gas sector, category I design, engineering surveys and environmental design.

Exploration projects and their addenda · Estimation and re-estimation of reserves and resources · Field development projects and their addenda · Technical projects for well construction, including horizontal wells · +2 more

KazTransOil Research and Development Centre (CIR)

Service companyAstana +2

In-house research and design centre of KazTransOil JSC — a branch of the company, not a separate legal entity; it is based in Astana, with design-estimate bureaus also in Aktau and Pavlodar. According to the company, it was created on 3 September 2000 as the Science and Technology Centre branch and renamed the Research and Development Centre in May 2020; since 25 December 2023 it has been located at M. Gabdullin Street 2 in Astana. It prepares design-estimate documentation for the investment programme and overhaul of KazTransOil's own facilities — trunk oil pipelines, oil pumping stations, tanks and tank farms — together with the environmental sections and emission-limit projects for them. According to the company, the centre runs laboratories for oil and petroleum products, physical and chemical methods, and corrosion; at the end of 2025 the branch had 127 employees (KazTransOil annual report). It designs only for KazTransOil itself: no work for outside clients was found in public sources, and all licences are held by KazTransOil JSC.

Design-estimate documentation for replacement, reconstruction and overhaul of trunk oil pipeline sections · Design of oil pumping stations, 20,000 m³ vertical steel tanks and tank farms · Design of crossings, feeder pipelines, and launcher and receiver chambers for cleaning and inspection tools · Design of oil heaters, boiler houses, power supply, line telemetry and wastewater treatment facilities · +2 more

Private design institute in Almaty working mainly on gas supply and pipeline transport facilities; according to the company, it has a branch in Atyrau and more than 140 employees. According to the company, it traces its history to the KazGiproGaz state design institute (1973), privatised in 1998 and renamed the Kazakh Institute of Oil and Gas Transportation in 2006; the present legal entity, judging by its business identification number, was registered in 2002, and in early 2022 its name was shortened to KITNG LLP. The State bank of construction projects shows it in 2022–2025 as general designer of automatic gas distribution stations, gas pipelines, the external gas supply of a power plant and gas distribution networks of settlements, as well as of a feasibility study for the Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant; it also prepares environmental documentation for a trunk gas pipeline operator. The base designs of trunk pipelines that the institute cites (the Kazakhstan–China gas and oil pipelines) date from the 2000s and are given according to the company. A notable share of its recent work is outside oil and gas: dredging at the port of Aktau, facilities of a uranium mine, and gasification of villages for regional and district clients.

Design of automatic gas distribution stations (AGRS) · Design of gas pipelines, feeder gas pipelines and gas distribution networks · External gas supply of power plants · Feasibility studies for refining facilities · +2 more

A private design company based in Aktau (KJS Project & Consulting LLP); according to the company, it has a branch in Astana and its first design and survey licences were issued in 2008. It prepares working designs for field facilities in Mangystau — well pads and hook-ups, access roads, oil and gas gathering and transport systems, reservoir-pressure maintenance systems, connection of field pipelines to trunk oil pipelines — together with their environmental protection sections and, according to the company, engineering and geodetic works. Documents on the state public-hearings portal for 2025–2026 name the company as design organisation or project developer for Emir-Oil LLP (Kariman field), Ken-Sary LLP (Arystanovskoye), Meerbusch LLP (Kulzhan), JV Arman LLP, Kom-Munai LLP, Karakudukmunai LLP and Buzachi Neft LLP, and for an early-production project at the Mortuk Vostochny field in Aktobe Region. According to the company, its partners also include Ozenmunaigas JSC, Embamunaigas JSC, Mangistaumunaigas JSC and Karazhanbasmunai JSC — with no work or dates given.

Working designs for oil and gas field facilities · Well pads, hook-ups and upgrades, access roads · Oil and gas gathering and transport systems, expansion of group units · Reservoir-pressure maintenance systems, conversion of wells to injection · +2 more

KMG Engineering

Service companyAstana +2

Research and design institute of the KazMunayGas group, with its head office in Astana and two branches — KazNIPImunaygas in Aktau and the Atyrau branch; the sole participant of the LLP is NC KazMunayGas JSC. The legal entity was created on 12 March 2014 as the KazMunayGas Research Institute of Production and Drilling Technologies LLP — according to the company, on the basis of the Kazakh Institute of Oil and Gas JSC (KING) and its subsidiary institutes — and was renamed KMG Engineering on 4 May 2019; KING itself did not become part of the institute and has been a separate private company since 2015. In May 2018 the subsidiary institutes became branches: KazNIPImunaygas (which traces its history to the KazNIPIneft institute, 1970) prepares project documents for the Mangystau assets — Ozenmunaigas, Mangistaumunaigaz, Karazhanbasmunai and the KazGPZ gas processing plant — and the Atyrau branch (the former NII Caspiymunaygas LLP) for Embamunaigas and assets in Aktobe, Kyzylorda and West Kazakhstan regions; the head office, according to the company, handles management, monitoring of exploration projects, conceptual design and design review. The branches prepare exploration work projects, reserves estimates, field development projects, technical designs for well construction, working designs of field facilities and environmental documentation; according to the company, they also run laboratory centres (core, PVT, oilfield chemistry, drilling fluids). The institute works almost exclusively for KMG group companies and their joint ventures; the private NIPI Kaspiymunaigaz JSC in Atyrau is a separate organisation and not part of the institute.

Exploration work projects and supplements to them · Estimation, re-estimation and addition of oil and gas reserves · Field development projects and supplements to them · Technical designs for well construction — group and individual · +2 more

KPSP (Karaganda Promstroyproekt Institute)

Service companyAstana +3

Private multi-sector design institute, part of the private KPSP group: its legal address is in Karaganda, while its head office, according to the company, is in Astana, with production offices in Karaganda, Atyrau and Aksai. According to the company, the institute has worked since 1959 and has 200 engineers (the present legal entity, judging by its business identification number, was registered in 2005); oil, gas and petrochemicals became one of its main lines in the 2020s, alongside mining and metallurgy, power and infrastructure. It carries out the design ("Project") stage and author supervision and, according to the company, also pre-design work, working documentation in all disciplines, adaptation of foreign designs to Kazakhstan's norms and support through expertise. The State bank of construction projects shows it as general designer of the adjustment of the "Project" stage for the gas separation unit at Tengiz for KMG PetroChem LLP (2025), and the Samruk-Kazyna procurement portal as provider of author supervision for the same client until the end of 2028; the project's non-technical summary names it as designer of the Silleno LLP polyethylene plant, while the hearing notice for the same facility names another design organisation as project developer. According to Technip Energies, in 2019 the institute set up the TKJV joint venture with it, which signed a frame agreement with NCOC (announced in July 2021) and a five-year engineering services agreement with Karachaganak Petroleum Operating (June 2024).

Design documentation (the "Project" stage) for gas processing and petrochemical facilities · Author supervision · Design of mining and metallurgical facilities: concentrators · Working designs of boiler houses, gas supply networks and heat networks · +2 more

NIPI Kaspiymunaigaz

Service companyAtyrau

Private design institute in Atyrau, wholly owned by the Kazakh Institute of Oil and Gas JSC (KING) and part of its private group; its average headcount in 2025 was 191 (filings in the state depository of financial statements). According to the institute, it traces its history to the Embaneftproekt design unit (1940) and the Giprokazneft and KazNIPIneft institutes; in 2001 the Kaspiymunaigaz state institute was converted into an open joint-stock company by a Government resolution, in 2002 its shares were transferred to KING, and in 2015, together with KING, it passed from the KazMunayGas group into private ownership. It designs oil and gas field facilities, carries out engineering surveys and prepares environmental design documentation — impact reports, emission limits and document packages for environmental permits. State registers show it as general designer of the feasibility study and working design of the Rozhkovskoye field facilities for Ural Oil & Gas LLP (2023) and as developer of environmental documentation for the Atyrau Refinery (2025–2026) and the Silleno LLP polyethylene plant (2025). The institute should not be confused with the Atyrau branch of KMG Engineering LLP — the former NII Caspiymunaygas LLP, which, according to the institute, it set up in 2005 and which in 2014 passed to KazMunayGas's research institute, now KMG Engineering LLP: that is a different organisation.

Design of oil and gas field facilities: feasibility studies and working designs with state expertise · Process design for subsoil users · Environmental protection sections and impact reports · Emission and discharge limits, waste management and industrial environmental control programmes · +2 more

NIPIneftegaz

Service companyAktau +5

A privately owned oil and gas research and design institute headquartered in Aktau, set up in 1997 and given its present name in 2025; according to the company, it was founded as NIPIneftegaz CJSC and has offices in Almaty, Astana, Oral (Uralsk), Kyzylorda and Atyrau. In 2007 the institute described itself as created on the basis of the KazNIPIneft institute; it is not that institute's legal successor: according to the history published by KMG Engineering LLP, the legal succession of KazNIPIneft leads to that company. According to the company, the institute prepares reserves estimates, exploration, trial production and field development projects, technical projects for well construction, designs of field facilities and industrial plants and environmental documents, and studies core and reservoir fluids in its own laboratory centre. State portals confirm that in 2022–2026 it was named as developer of the development projects for the Karaturun Morskoe, Munaibay, Karamandybas North and Tuzkol fields and of facilities projects at the Dunga field, and a subsoil user's filing names it as the author of the Karabulak North reserves estimate approved by the State Commission on Reserves in 2022; work for Tengizchevroil, KPO and NCOC is listed only on the institute's own site. As stated by the organisation, it holds state licences for the design of mining production in the oil and gas sector (class 1), environmental design and standard-setting, category I design and engineering surveys; its testing laboratory is accredited until 6 October 2030 (register of the National Accreditation Centre), and its average headcount in 2025 was 311 (annual statements filed with the state depository).

Estimation and re-estimation of oil, gas and condensate reserves · Trial production and field development projects and their addenda · Field development analysis and author supervision · Technical projects for well construction · +2 more

OPTIMUM Design Institute

Service companyAktau

A privately owned design institute in Aktau, founded in 2000, according to the company, as an independent expert and consulting firm in geology and subsoil use and renamed OPTIMUM Design Institute LLP in 2009. According to the company, the institute prepares reserves estimates and re-estimates (including PRMS assessments), exploration, trial production and field development projects, technical projects for well construction, field facilities designs and environmental documents, and also designs gas-chemical plants. State documents confirm reserves re-estimates approved by the State Commission on Reserves for the Airakty (2021), Sarybulak (2023) and Kamenskoe (2024) fields, development projects for the Matin, Kamenskoe, Sarybulak and Bukharsai fields, and two reserves and resources reports published on KASE in 2018 by the issuers KazAzot and Maten Petroleum. Public-hearing notices of 2022–2026 name the institute as project developer for QazaqGaz Exploration and Production, Kuatamlonmunai, Ken-Sary, Kom-Munai, Taiqonyr Energy, KazAzot, Kazpetrol Group and a Sinopec branch. As stated by the organisation, it holds a Ministry of Energy licence for works and services in the hydrocarbons sector (class 1) and licences for category I design, engineering surveys and environmental protection works.

Reserves estimates and re-estimates, PRMS reserves and resources assessments · Exploration projects and their addenda · Trial production and field development projects · Technical projects for well construction and well reactivation projects · +2 more

QazaqGaz NTC

Service companyAstana

Industry science and technology centre of the national company QazaqGaz in Astana — its wholly owned subsidiary; according to the centre, its structure includes engineering, geology, research and IT units and training centres. It was created by reorganising QazaqGaz Qurylys LLP: QazaqGaz annual reports give 2023 as the year of creation, the centre's own site gives 2022, while the legal entity itself, judging by its business identification number, was registered in 2014; in 2024, according to QazaqGaz, a training combine and a normative-technical laboratory in Shymkent were transferred to it, and in 2025 the centre was accredited as a subject of scientific and technical activity. Its main work is geological analytics for the group (analysis of the prospectivity of blocks, exploration concepts, digital geological models, the search for structures for underground gas storage) and staff training; the centre also develops standards and measurement methodologies. Design is a small and recent part of its activity: in 2025 the centre produced the working design of a standard CNG filling station for QazaqGaz Onimderi LLP and a pre-feasibility study for the conceptual development of the Imashevskoye field for QazaqGaz. It works almost exclusively under contracts with QazaqGaz group companies; at the end of 2025 the centre had 74 employees (QazaqGaz annual report).

Prospectivity analysis of subsoil blocks and assessment of prospective resources · Exploration concepts and plans of geological study of subsoil · Digital geological models · Search for structures for underground gas storage · +2 more

A privately owned design organisation in Aktau working on subsurface project documents. According to the company (its website has not been updated since July 2013), it was formed in December 2000 on the basis of the geology and oil and gas field development department of the Engineering Centre of Mangistaumunaigaz JSC and in 2001–2009 prepared project and research documents for all 15 fields of that company. According to the company, it prepares reserves estimates and re-estimates, prospecting and exploration projects, trial production and field development projects with geological and reservoir simulation models, technical projects for well construction, conservation and liquidation projects and environmental documents. State portals confirm work for subsoil users in Mangystau and Atyrau regions: the centre is named as the author of the addenda to the development projects for the West Sagiz and Asanketken fields and of the Asanketken reserves re-estimate for Jasyl Energy (2024–2025), of group technical projects for well construction at the Karaturun fields for Buzachi Neft (2025–2026), and of the reserves estimate and trial production project for the Shalva field (2011–2016). As stated by the organisation, it holds licences for the design of mining production and for environmental protection works.

Estimates and re-estimates of oil, gas and associated component reserves · Trial production projects, field development projects and their addenda · Group and individual technical projects for well construction · Projects for liquidating the consequences of subsoil use · +2 more