Drilling contractors in Kazakhstan

Burgylau is a Zhanaozen-based drilling contractor established in 1997 on the basis of the Soviet-era Uzen drilling department. It constructs production oil and gas wells and also performs workover, well completion and abandonment, with Ozenmunaigas as its main customer. The company belongs to the KazPetroDrilling group.

Oil and gas well drilling · Capital well workover · Well completion and development · Well abandonment · +2 more

KazMunayGas-Burenie (KMG-Drilling)

Service company · ContractorAtyrau

KazMunayGas-Burenie is an Atyrau-based drilling contractor whose history goes back to the Prorva drilling office of 1963; it has operated under its current name since 2002. It drills production and exploration wells and provides drilling fluid services, cementing, coring, well completion and directional drilling with a fleet of about ten owned rigs of 100–590 t capacity. It is part of the KazPetroDrilling group rather than a subsidiary of national company KazMunayGas.

Production and exploration well drilling · Drilling fluid services · Well cementing · Coring · +2 more

Almaty-based engineering and consulting company founded in 2010 that advises subsoil users and drilling contractors on well drilling and workover. According to its website, it prepares drilling programmes and well designs, designs casing strings and wellheads with industry-standard software, runs drilling projects from tender packages and contractor selection to wellsite supervision, writes drilling rig specifications, and inspects and tests rigs before they go to work. In health, safety and the environment, it prepares HSE documentation under Kazakhstan law and plans and coordinates environmental impact assessments (EIA) and environmental permit applications. Nearly all the Kazakhstan projects described on the website are deep exploration wells. From 2010 the company provided engineering, tendering, drilling management, completion and testing for Lucent Petroleum's wells Lebyazhye 14 and South Prorva 1, and in 2017–2018 for the 4,750 m high-pressure, high-temperature well LP3 in East Munaibai. For Sequa Petroleum it prepared tender packages, selected and inspected equipment and supervised a 6,000 m well in north-western Kazakhstan near Karachaganak and Aksai (2012–2015); for Almex Plus it did the casing design, drilling fluid selection and wellsite supervision on the 6,200 m Ansagan 2 well near Tengiz (2014); and for Alga Caspi Gas it wrote the drilling programme and the rig specification for a deep sour-gas well on the Russian border near Astrakhan (2012). In 2014 Karachaganak Petroleum Operating commissioned it to study the feasibility of batch drilling on cluster well pads with existing rigs converted for skidding. For MH Industries it wrote the specifications for two new drilling rigs and advised through their acceptance (2012–2015), and for Australian Gas Group it moved a ZJ20 rig from Kyrgyzstan to Aktau and arranged its overhaul, certification and permits (2014–2016). From 2013 it prepared the presentations of Project Eurasia — Caspi 1, a planned 15,000 m ultra-deep stratigraphic test well in the Pre-Caspian Basin — for government approval. It has also worked abroad, including in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and offshore Congo. The company owns the rights to its own SUPREMA software for well planning and reducing drilling risk. It has six modules — cementing, hydraulic pressure losses, kick tolerance, stuck point determination, casing design and time look-ahead (drilling duration) — and a Russian or English interface. The state certificate of registration of rights, No. 1671, was issued on 18 December 2013.

Engineering: drilling programmes, well design, casing and wellhead design, including deep and sour (H2S) wells · Drilling project management: well preparation, permits and tender packages, contractor selection and wellsite supervision · Rig equipment evaluation: rig specifications, purchase tenders, inspections and system testing before the rig goes to work · Subsoil use advisory: operating under Kazakhstan law, quality control and independent monitoring of project progress, preparing and evaluating tenders · +3 more

Heavy machinery plant in Almaty founded in 1941 that builds equipment for metallurgy, mining, power and the oil industry. Its oilfield range includes sucker-rod pump drives (pumping units of the ПШН series), their gearboxes and НБ-125 reciprocating drilling pumps; by 2021 it had produced more than 1,700 pumping units for Kazakhstan oilfield companies.

Manufacturing to customer drawings · Casting and forging · Spare parts for pumps and pumping units · Sucker-rod pumping units (ПШН series) · +3 more

Batys Munai S Group (BMSG)

Service company · ContractorAktobe

Aktobe-based oilfield contractor providing directional and horizontal well drilling, workover and capital well repair, well testing and development, cementing and swabbing, core sampling and geotechnical investigations. It also manufactures ancillary equipment such as rope slings, circulation systems and storage tanks, and supplies and services drill bits under a state licence for subsoil-related operations.

Directional and horizontal drilling · Well workover and capital repair · Well testing and development · Cementing and swabbing · +5 more

KazPetroDrilling

Service company · ContractorAktau +1

KazPetroDrilling is an independent Kazakhstan drilling group headquartered in Aktau that provides well drilling, workover and abandonment, hydraulic fracturing and well cementing through its subsidiaries. The group includes Burgylau, KazMunayGas-Burenie, KazTechMunayServis and MunaiFieldService, as well as equipment manufacturing, pipe repair and transport companies. It operates from Aktau, Atyrau and Zhanaozen.

Well construction · Well workover and abandonment · Multi-stage hydraulic fracturing · Acid well stimulation · +2 more

KazBurGas

Service company · ContractorAksai +1

KazBurGas is a West Kazakhstan drilling contractor headquartered in Aksai, formed in 1996 through the merger of two drilling divisions of Karachaganakgazprom. It drills oil and gas wells of various designs and provides related well-construction services including fishing and milling operations, cementing, drilling-mud preparation and field geophysical support, with a second office in Atyrau.

Oil and gas well drilling · Well workover and major repair · Fishing and milling operations · Well cementing · +2 more

Oil Services Company (OSC) is an Aktau-based oilfield service company of the KazMunayGas group operating in Mangystau region. It provides drilling and development of oil and gas wells, capital and underground well repair, chemical treatment of oil production processes and transport services. The company was formed in 2001 and in 2002 absorbed the local service enterprises Shegendeu, Khimremontskvazhina and Burgyshy.

Well drilling and development · Capital well workover (KRS) · Underground well repair (PRS) · Bottomhole zone chemical treatment · +2 more

Neft Tekh Service

Service company · ContractorKyzylorda

Kyzylorda-based well services contractor founded in 2001, active in drilling oil and gas wells, well completion and development, capital and routine well repairs, water-intake well drilling and well-stimulation work. Regional business directories list the company as employing around 1,000 staff.

Oil and gas well drilling · Well completion and development · Capital and routine well repair · Water-intake well drilling · +1 more

Exalo Drilling

Contractor · Service companyAlmaty

Exalo Drilling is a Polish drilling and well-services contractor, descended from PGNiG's drilling subsidiaries, operating a fleet of about 35 drilling and workover rigs plus well-services equipment. It runs a Kazakhstan branch from Almaty as part of an international network that also includes Pakistan, Chad, the UAE, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Tanzania.

Contract land drilling · Well workover · Well cementing · Hydraulic fracturing · +2 more

Azimut Geology

Service companyKaraganda

Karaganda-based geological and geophysical service company with over two decades on the market, covering 2D/3D seismic exploration alongside magnetic, gravity and electrical surveys, hydrogeological and engineering-geological investigations, exploration drilling to 2,300 m and its own chemical-analytical laboratory.

2D/3D seismic exploration · Magnetic, gravity and electrical survey · Hydrogeological and engineering-geological survey · Exploration drilling to 2,300 m · +2 more

KMG Drilling & Services is the drilling subsidiary of national company KazMunayGas, providing construction of offshore and onshore oil and gas wells. It owns Satti, the first jack-up drilling rig built in Kazakhstan, and participates in the KMG Nabors Drilling Company and KMG Parker Drilling Company joint ventures. The company has branches in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, where Satti has been deployed on Caspian projects.

Offshore well drilling · Onshore well construction · Jack-up rig operations · Oil and gas well construction

Great Wall Drilling Company (GWDC), the international land-drilling arm of China National Petroleum Corporation, has drilled in Kazakhstan since 1999 through Sino-Kazakh Great Wall Drilling LLP, a joint venture with CNPC-Aktobemunaigas headquartered in Aktobe. The JV provides contract drilling, workover, cementing and directional drilling, mainly in the Zhanazhol field area of Aktobe region.

Contract land drilling · Well workover · Cementing and casing · Directional drilling · +1 more

Kazakhstani geological exploration company offering a full cycle of survey work: geophysical methods (seismic, electrical, borehole logging), core and rotary drilling, and hydrogeological assessment. Clients span mining majors and, for oil and gas, the Karachaganak field.

Seismic, electrical and gravity survey · Borehole geophysical logging · Core and rotary exploration drilling · Hydrogeological survey

Nabors Industries

Contractor · Service companyAtyrau

Nabors Industries is a global land-drilling contractor that has operated in Kazakhstan since 2015 through KMG Nabors Drilling Company, a joint venture with KazMunayGas subsidiary KMG Drilling & Services that took over Tengizchevroil's drilling program at the Tengiz field. In 2025 Nabors also acquired Parker Wellbore, which had run drilling rigs in Kazakhstan for various operators since 1993.

Land drilling rig operations · Rig automation and process control · Tubular rental and running services · Drilling performance software

Aktau-based drilling contractor and KazService union member that drills oil, gas and injection wells up to 3,000 metres deep and performs capital and routine well repairs and associated drilling operations for Mangystau-region fields.

Oil and gas well drilling · Injection well drilling · Capital and routine well repair

Zhanros Drilling is a private oilfield service company headquartered in Kyzylorda, providing oil and gas well drilling, capital workover and hydrodynamic well research since 1996. It is described as one of the largest private oilfield service providers in southern Kazakhstan, running production bases directly at client fields. Reported clients include PetroKazakhstan, KazGerMunay and Sammek International.

Oil well drilling · Gas well drilling · Capital well workover · Hydrodynamic well research · +1 more

Vostok Neft i Servisnoe Obsluzhivanie is an Aktobe-region drilling contractor registered in 2002. It independently performs turnkey drilling, casing, workover and development of oil, gas and geothermal wells, including deviated, horizontal and cluster wells, plus core sampling, drilling-fluid treatment, cementing and well completion.

Turnkey and contract drilling · Directional and horizontal drilling · Cluster well drilling · Well cementing · +2 more

NOV

Manufacturer · Service companyAtyrau

NOV (formerly National Oilwell Varco) supplies drilling rig equipment, downhole tools and wellbore technologies to oil and gas operators in Kazakhstan, and rents and services tubular-handling and drilling tools. It has operated in the country since 2003 through a branch registered in Atyrau, with an office and equipment warehouse serving western Kazakhstan's oilfields.

Rig equipment field service · Downhole tool rental · Drill bit services · Tubular running services · +6 more

KCA Deutag

Contractor · Service companyAtyrau

KCA Deutag is an international land-drilling contractor that entered Kazakhstan through a 2021 joint venture, KCA Deutag Kazakhstan LLP, with local operator OGCC KazStroyService, covering engineering, rig leasing, and rig operation and maintenance for the Tengiz, Karachaganak and Kashagan projects. The Kazakhstan business is headquartered in Atyrau; KCA Deutag itself was acquired by U.S. driller Helmerich & Payne in January 2025.

Engineering for drilling projects · Rig leasing · Rig operations and maintenance · Rig reconstruction and modification