OPTIMUM Design Institute
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