Oil and gas design organisations in Kazakhstan: catalogue

Timal Consulting Group

Service companyAtyrau +1

A privately owned design company with its head office in Atyrau; according to the company, it was formed in April 2008 in Almaty, where it keeps an office, and opened an office in Atyrau in 2016, to which its legal address was later moved. It prepares field development projects and their addenda, trial production and exploration projects, with its own environmental sections and emission-standard packages; according to the company, it also produces reserves estimates and geological and reservoir simulation models and develops software for the oil and gas industry. Public-hearing notices of 2022–2026 name the company as developer of the development projects for the Zhanazhol (for CNPC-Aktobemunaigas), Ketekazgan West, Akzhol, Saigak, Kokzhide, Lebyazhye, Shubarkuduk and Zhengeldy fields; its clients also include CNPC-AiDan Munai, Caspi Neft, Kazpetrol Group and Tumar Petrol. The employer card on the state Electronic Labour Exchange shows 54 employees (October 2026). As stated by the organisation, it holds a state licence for works and services in environmental protection.

Field development projects and their addenda · Trial production projects · Exploration (prospecting and appraisal) projects and their addenda · Reports on possible impacts, EIA and environmental protection sections for projects · +2 more

WoodKSS (Wood)

EPC / Engineering · Service companyAtyrau +2

Kazakhstan-registered joint venture of Wood (UK; owned by Sidara since 10 March 2026) and OGCC KazStroyService JSC: founded in 2007 as PSN KazStroy JSC, renamed WOOD KSS in 2021 and converted into a limited liability partnership in August 2022. Its head office is in Atyrau, with a branch in Almaty and offices in Aktau and at Tengiz. According to the company, it has more than 400 employees and provides engineering from feasibility, concept and pre-FEED studies through FEED and detailed design, including modifications of operating facilities, together with project management, EPC/EPCm delivery, asset integrity and operations support. As stated by the organisation, it holds state licences for design activity of category I (No. 22015392, first issued on 14 December 2016), construction and installation works of category I, and engineering surveys. On 29 May 2026 the company announced a new engineering and project-support contract with Tengizchevroil; it follows the master services agreement of 2019 and, as the company describes it, covers an expanded scope of specialist project management services.

Feasibility, concept-select and pre-FEED studies · Multi-discipline FEED with digital 3D design · Detailed engineering with issued-for-construction deliverables · Brownfield modifications of operating facilities · +2 more

KATEK

Service companyAlmaty

Private design and engineering company in Almaty working in gas transport and gas supply; according to the company, it has carried out engineering, design and survey work since 2000 and has more than 100 specialists. It prepares feasibility studies and working designs for trunk gas pipelines, pipeline branches, automated gas distribution stations and gas distribution networks of towns and villages, prepares the environmental sections of its own designs and provides author supervision. In the State bank of construction projects for 2021–2025 the company is recorded as general designer in 51 entries, including feasibility studies for the ethane and propane trunk pipelines in Atyrau Region for KMG PetroChem LLP, for the looping of the Karachaganak–Uralsk gas pipeline for Intergas Central Asia JSC and the adjusted feasibility study of the Saryarka gas pipeline for AstanaGas KMG JSC (all in 2024). Most of its work under state procurement is gasification of settlements for regional and district clients. Oil and gas field facilities are listed on the company's site, but are supported only by older items in its own reference list.

Feasibility studies and working designs for trunk gas pipelines and pipeline branches · Design of automated gas distribution stations (AGRS) and gas treatment points · Gas pipeline branches to CHP plants, gas-turbine and gas-piston power plants and industrial consumers · Feasibility studies of trunk pipelines for gas chemistry (ethane, propane) · +2 more

Witteveen+Bos Caspian

EPC / Engineering · Service companyAlmaty +2

Kazakhstan company of the Dutch consulting and engineering firm Witteveen+Bos — Witteveen+Bos Caspian LLP, with offices in Almaty, Atyrau and Aktau; according to the company, its first office in Kazakhstan opened in Aktau in 2001, followed by Atyrau in 2003 and Almaty in 2007. By its own description, it designs civil and marine infrastructure for oil and gas projects rather than process plant: artificial islands and ice-protection structures, marine access channels, ports and cargo offloading facilities, access roads, industrial wastewater treatment. According to the company, its experts have worked in Kazakhstan since 1997 and have designed Kashagan's islands since 1998; for Tengizchevroil it carried out, from 2012, the feasibility study, environmental impact assessment, surveys, FEED and detailed design of the Cargo Transportation Route (CaTRo), and for NCOC the design of the Kashagan marine access channels from pre-FEED to detailed design (the first phase of the channels was then planned to be operational at the end of 2021). NCOC's mandate for the front-end engineering of the channels was also reported by Energy Intelligence in April 2021. Outside oil and gas the company works on water management, urban mobility and remediation.

Design of artificial islands and ice-protection structures · Design of marine access channels, ports and cargo offloading facilities · Design of access roads and dykes · Feasibility studies, FEED and detailed design · +2 more

EON Energo

EPC / Engineering · ContractorAktau +1

Engineering company with an office in Aktau and a design department on the site of the Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant. According to the company, it was founded in 2005, provides design, equipment supply and construction for refining and petrochemicals, and its design department is the former in-house design office of the Pavlodar plant, which moved to KGNT in 2018, to KING in 2019 and to EON Energo in 2021. Thirteen public-hearing notices on the state portal (2021–2026) name the company as developer of documentation for the Atyrau Refinery and the Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant: expansion of a hydrogen compressor station, a coke-chamber block, off-gas compression, reconstruction of an oil metering unit. Much of the material published for these projects consists of environmental protection sections and impact reports. The 2020 licences shown on its website — design activity of category I, engineering surveys, and environmental protection works and services — are marked as re-issued in the state register; the current documents are not published on the site.

Working designs for reconstruction and revamp of refinery process units · Design of compressor and pump stations and pump cooling systems · Revamp design for process control systems of process units · Oil metering unit design · +2 more

GeoProject

Service companyAtyrau

A private design company based in Atyrau (GeoProject LLP), registered in 1998, according to the company, for work in the oil and gas sector; in its own words, it has a small permanent staff and works with partners. It prepares working designs for well facilities and oil and gas gathering systems at operating fields, and environmental design documentation: technological-standard and emission-limit projects for integrated environmental permits, waste-management programmes, environmental protection sections and reports on possible impacts. According to documents on the state public-hearings portal, in 2025–2026 the company developed working designs for Kazakhoil Aktobe LLP (Alibekmola and Kozhasai fields) and QazaqGaz Exploration and Production LLP (Airakty), environmental documentation for the Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant and Ozenmunaigas JSC, and environmental protection sections for 36 wells of the Bozoi underground gas storage of Intergas Central Asia JSC. In 2022–2024 it also prepared technical designs for drilling and restoration of wells and projects for liquidation of the consequences of exploration for small subsoil users. As stated by the organisation, it holds licences for category I design and for works and services in environmental protection.

Working designs for well facilities and oil and gas gathering systems · Technological-standard and emission-limit projects for integrated environmental permits · Environmental protection sections and reports on possible impacts · Permissible emission and discharge limit projects · +2 more

SMART Engineering

Service companyAlmaty +1

A privately owned design company in Almaty; according to the company, it was created in 2006 and has an office in Atyrau. It prepares exploration and appraisal projects, field development projects and their addenda, technical projects for well construction and projects for liquidating the consequences of subsoil use, with its own environmental sections; according to the company, it also produces reserves estimates for the State Commission on Reserves, trial production projects, development analyses, author supervision reports and raw gas processing programmes. Public-hearing notices of 2022–2026 name the company as developer of the development projects for the Zhamansu, Alimbay, Karataykyz and Mynteke South fields, of an addendum to the Kemerkol field development project and of exploration projects for the Zharkent, Maksat, Elek, Kargaly, Tastobe, Tepke and Karaturun East areas; the state procurement register shows two executed contracts with the West Kazakhstan Interregional Department of Geology (2020 and 2021). According to the company, it has completed 498 projects for 98 clients, 276 of them defended at the Central Commission for Exploration and Development, and 47 of its reserves reports have been approved by the State Commission on Reserves. As stated by the organisation, it holds state licences for the design of mining production in the oil and gas industry, for environmental protection works (class 1) and for design and survey activity.

Exploration (prospecting) projects and their addenda · Appraisal projects · Field development projects and their addenda · Individual and group technical projects for well construction · +2 more

Viridi Navitas

Service companyAstana

A privately owned design company in Astana that has worked for subsoil users since 2009; according to the company, besides hydrocarbons it deals with solid minerals, water use and environmental design, and the share of oil and gas work in its portfolio is not published. According to the company, for hydrocarbons it prepares exploration and pilot production projects, technical projects and technological development schemes, field facilities projects, development analyses and conservation and liquidation projects. The state public-hearings portal confirms for 2024–2026 technical projects for drilling exploration wells and for reactivation and restoration of wells, a project for liquidating the consequences of subsoil use and reports on possible impacts — for Asia Energy Limited, KOR Oil Company, Sozak Oil and Gas and Ken-Ai-Oil Kyzylorda — as well as a report on possible impacts for the gas treatment unit project at the Kashagan field for GPC Investment. As stated by the organisation with links to the state licence register elicense.kz, it holds licences for category I design, engineering surveys and environmental protection works, and a 2020 licence for design in the hydrocarbons sector whose register entry has the status 're-issued'. According to the company, it has more than 100 specialists on staff.

Technical projects for drilling exploration wells · Technical projects for reactivation and restoration of wells · Projects for liquidating the consequences of subsoil use · Reports on possible impacts, environmental protection sections and materials for environmental permits · +2 more

US engineering and EPC company; in Kazakhstan it is represented by the branch of Fluor Kazakhstan Inc., with an office in Atyrau. According to the company, Fluor has worked in Kazakhstan since 1982 and with Tengizchevroil since 1997. Fluor led the KPJV joint venture (with Worley, Kazakh Institute of Oil and Gas JSC and KazGiproNefteTrans Engineering Company LLP), which from 2011 carried out the FEED and, after the 2016 investment decision, the detailed engineering, procurement and construction management for the Future Growth Project – Wellhead Pressure Management Project at Tengiz; according to Fluor, the engineering was executed from its office in Farnborough, UK, with support from centres in Atyrau and Almaty. The project is complete: first oil at the Third-Generation Plant came on 24 January 2025, and Fluor announced completion and start-up on 4 March 2025. Separately, Fluor signed a framework agreement with NCOC for conceptual studies and front-end engineering (January 2017, for two years) and an engineering services agreement with KPO in consortium with the KazNIPImunaygas branch of KMG Engineering LLP (October 2019, for three years with two one-year extension options).

Front-end engineering design (FEED) · Detailed engineering · EPCM: engineering, procurement and construction management · Modularized construction management · +2 more

Kazakhstan business of the international engineering company Worley (Australia) — WorleyParsons Kazakhstan LLP, with an office in Atyrau. According to the company, Worley has worked in Kazakhstan for more than 25 years and provides FEED, detailed engineering and EPCM as well as construction, turnaround and maintenance services. On Tengizchevroil's Future Growth Project – Wellhead Pressure Management Project (FGP-WPMP) Worley was a member of the Fluor-led KPJV joint venture; the company describes its own part as FEED and detailed EPCM for the wellhead pressure management scope, carried out by its engineering centres in Atyrau, Almaty and Aktau. The Petroleum journal reported that a consortium of WorleyParsons Kazakhstan LLP and KGNT completed the FEED for stage 1 of the Karachaganak Expansion Project (KEP-1) in autumn 2019. A services framework agreement with Tengizchevroil, which the company calls long-term and which was reported by Oil & Gas Journal and World Oil, has been in effect since February 2026.

Front-end engineering design (FEED) · Detailed engineering · EPCM and project management · Field pipeline and trunkline design: routing, tie-ins, design validation (according to the company) · +2 more

Construction NS

Service companyAktau +1

Design company based in Aktau with a second office in Astana; its own website calls it a design and construction company. The state public-hearings portal names it as the design organisation or developer in 11 notices of 2024–2026: small field-facility working designs for Mangystau producers — the Tenge, Arman, Karakuduk, Dunga and North Buzachi fields — and the environmental documents that go with them. The title page of its 2025 working design for the facilities of well No. 213 and the reconstruction of the TsPU-2 unit at the Arman field cites a category I licence, GSL No. 21016535 of 26 April 2021. The company's website covers civil design, legalisation of alterations and supervision, and says nothing about its oil and gas work.

Working designs for well facilities and gathering systems · Well modernisation and reconstruction of gathering points and oil metering units · Designs for converting production wells to injection · Environmental protection sections to working designs, including liquidation and land-reclamation projects · +2 more

Kazakhstan company of the Italian engineering group Proger S.p.A.: Caspian Proger Engineering and Consulting LLP was opened in 2002 according to Proger, with its head office in Atyrau and a second office in Almaty. According to Proger, the company has worked on Kashagan since the experimental programme of the early 2000s; its references for Agip KCO include engineering for artificial islands A and D, the Karabatan water treatment plant and the Koshanai waste management facility, and in 2014 a new Atyrau office was opened for work with KPO and NCOC. Proger announced on 26 May 2021 that, through Caspian Proger, it had signed a five-year framework agreement with NCOC worth up to USD 20 million for multidisciplinary engineering, project management and support services at the Kashagan onshore and offshore facilities. According to the company, it employs more than 50 professionals, 40 of them local.

Multidisciplinary engineering for operating onshore and offshore facilities (according to Proger) · Project management (according to Proger) · Project support services (according to Proger) · Engineering and project management for offshore artificial islands (according to Proger) · +2 more

A private design and consulting company based in Kyzylorda (KAZHADA PROJECTS LLP); the company does not publish its founding date or any licences of its own on its site. It prepares working designs for oil-field facilities in Kyzylorda Region — pads and hook-ups of production and water-source wells, flowlines, access roads, power supply and automation, inter-field pipelines and gas pipelines — and environmental documentation: environmental protection sections, permissible emission and discharge limit projects, waste-management programmes. According to documents on the state public-hearings portal, in 2025 the company was the general design organisation of the working designs for the Khairkeldy group and Taur fields and for the South-West Khairkeldy field for KAZPETROL GROUP LLP; earlier it issued a working design for an inter-field gas pipeline for the same client (2023) and a correction of an inter-field pipeline design for Galaz and Company LLP (2024). It also prepares environmental protection sections for uranium producers — JV KATCO LLP and RU-6 LLP. According to the company, its clients also include Turgai-Petroleum JSC, CNPC-Ai Dan Munai JSC, JV Kazgermunai LLP and PetroKazakhstan Kumkol Resources JSC — without descriptions of the work or dates.

Working designs for oil-field facilities (as general design organisation) · Pads and hook-ups of production and water-source wells, flowlines · Inter-field pipelines and gas pipelines · Access roads, power supply and automation of field facilities · +2 more

TKJV (Technip Energies)

EPC / Engineering · Service companyKaraganda +3

Kazakhstan-registered joint venture of Technip Energies (France) and the Karaganda Promstroyproekt Institute LLP (KPSP), created in 2019; according to Technip Energies, the partners hold equal shares. Its head office is in Karaganda and, according to the company, it has branch offices in Atyrau, Aksai and Almaty. According to the company, it provides conceptual studies, pre-FEED, FEED and detailed engineering for operating fields, as well as project management consultancy (PMC). In July 2021 Technip Energies reported a five-year frame agreement between TKJV and NCOC for the Aktote, Kairan and Kashagan fields, from conceptual studies to pre-FEED; on 18 June 2024 Technip Energies, through TKJV, signed a five-year services frame agreement with Karachaganak Petroleum Operating, from consulting and concept to detailed engineering. A state public-hearing notice for a hearing on 22 June 2026 names TKJV as the developer of the design documentation for the tie-in and hook-up of well 98102 at the Karachaganak field.

Conceptual, feasibility and concept-select studies · Field master plans (with Genesis) (according to the company) · Pre-FEED engineering · FEED and basic engineering · +2 more

A privately owned petroleum geological exploration research institute in Aktobe. According to the history published by the KazNIGRI institute, it grew out of KazNIGRI's Aktyubinsk branch, formed in January 1964; when the branch became an independent organisation is not established in public sources. The institute has no working website; this profile is compiled from state portals and documents. Public-hearing notices of 2022–2025 name it as developer of exploration projects and their addenda for blocks in Aktobe and Atyrau regions, of technical projects for drilling, reactivation and conservation of wells and of projects for liquidating the consequences of subsoil use, with their environmental sections; documents on state portals also confirm trial production projects for the Sarybulak field for Tarbagatay Munay (2015–2021) and state contracts of 2016–2022 with the West Kazakhstan Interregional Department of Geology. Its testing laboratory is accredited until 30 January 2031 (register of the National Accreditation Centre) for tests of air, water, soil and rock properties; as stated by the organisation in its project documents, it holds licences for the design of mining production and for environmental design.

Exploration (prospecting) projects and their addenda · Trial production projects and their addenda · Individual and group technical projects for drilling wells · Well reactivation and conservation projects · +2 more

A privately owned design company in Atyrau, registered in 2002, that prepares subsurface project documents mainly for private subsoil users. The company has no website and publishes no contact details, so this profile is compiled only from state portals and documents. Public-hearing notices from October 2021 to October 2026 and documents on state portals name it as developer of exploration projects, trial production projects (Biikzhal, Bastau, Balykshi, Karagan), field development projects and their addenda (Kamyskul South, Karatyube, Akshabulak West, Baychunas West, Bashenkol, Bastau, Kemerkol), technical projects for well construction and projects for liquidating the consequences of subsoil use, with their environmental sections. State documents also cite the company's reserves estimates approved by the State Commission on Reserves (Kamyskul South in 2020, Bastau in 2021, Baychunas West and Pridorozhnoe South in 2023) and the technological development scheme for the Uaz field drawn up in 2011. As stated by the organisation in its project documents and in hearing notices, it holds a Ministry of Energy licence for drafting project documents for hydrocarbon fields (class 1) and a licence for environmental protection works.

Estimation and re-estimation of oil and gas reserves · Exploration (prospecting and appraisal) projects and their addenda · Trial production projects · Field development projects, technological schemes and their addenda · +2 more