Oil & gas laboratories in Kazakhstan

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NDTS (NDT Service)

Service company · ContractorAtyrau +3

Atyrau-based independent inspection company founded in 2003, which describes itself as the largest specialised NDT/NDE contractor in Kazakhstan. It runs offices and project facilities in Atyrau, Almaty, Aktau, Aksai, at Tengiz and at the Karabatan site serving Kashagan, with over 100 national inspection staff. Its clients include Tengizchevroil, KPO, NCOC and major construction contractors.

Conventional NDT (PT, MT, RT, UT, PMI, visual) · Advanced NDT (phased array, AUT, ToFD, IRIS, MFL, eddy current) · Corrosion mapping and digital radiography · Pipeline inspection · +2 more

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KAPE – Kazakhstan Agency of Applied Ecology

Service companyAlmaty +3

Almaty-based environmental consultancy that began work in 1998 as one of the first non-governmental providers of environmental support for hydrocarbon exploration and production in Kazakhstan. It provides marine and onshore environmental monitoring, environmental assessment and permitting projects, air and water protection, waste management and chemical-analytical laboratory services, and operates a marine unit with research vessels on the Caspian. Branches work in Atyrau, Aktau and Astana.

Marine and onshore environmental monitoring · Environmental assessment and permitting projects (ОВОС) · Air quality and water resources protection · Waste management consulting · +2 more

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KMG Engineering

Service companyAstana +2

Research and design institute of the KazMunayGas group, headquartered in Astana with the Atyrau Branch and the KazNIPImunaygas branch in Aktau. It provides geological assessment, field development design and monitoring, well construction support, engineering design and laboratory research for KMG producing companies.

Field development design and monitoring · Geological assessment and exploration support · Engineering design of oil and gas facilities · Well construction and drilling support · +2 more

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Kashagan Control

Service companyAtyrau +1

Atyrau-based testing company working in the regional construction market since 2008. It operates non-destructive testing and construction-materials laboratories, inspecting welded joints with conventional and advanced methods (phased array, TOFD) and testing concrete, soils, cement, aggregates and asphalt concrete. It has stationary laboratories in the Tengiz shift camp and on the Atyrau–Dossor highway and uses mobile laboratories, including at the Karachaganak field.

Weld non-destructive testing · Phased array and TOFD testing · Radiographic and magnetic particle testing · Hardness testing · +2 more

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ECOEXPERT

Service companyKaraganda

Karaganda-based environmental and occupational-safety consultancy founded in 1992, operating an accredited testing laboratory and licensed for radiation-safety and environmental-protection work across Kazakhstan. Its named clients include the upstream producers Embamunaigas and Mangystaumunaigas alongside mining group Kazakhmys Maintenance Services.

Environmental monitoring and emissions control · EIA/ОВОС and ecological audits · Workplace certification (attestation) · Radiation safety monitoring · +2 more

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MAG-Pi Inspection

Service companyAktau

Caspian-region NDT and inspection company established in 1991, with offices in Baku, Aktau and Tbilisi. It entered Kazakhstan in 2007 and has worked on Kashagan, Karachaganak and Tengiz-related projects. Services cover conventional and advanced NDT, third-party inspection, integrity management, corrosion monitoring and mechanical testing.

Conventional NDT (UT, RT, MT, PT, eddy current, hardness) · Advanced NDT (PAUT, TOFD, digital radiography, MFL, drone inspection) · Third-party and welding inspection · Integrity management and risk-based inspection · +2 more

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NPI Ecology Budushego

Service companyAstana +11

Astana-headquartered environmental consultancy with representative offices across Kazakhstan, including Atyrau, that prepares environmental permitting documentation (EIA/ОВОС, sanitary-zone and emission-standard projects) and runs its own testing laboratory for air, water, soil and waste analysis. It reports around 50 engineers and ecological designers working nationwide.

EIA/ОВОС documentation · Sanitary protection zone projects · Emission and discharge standards · Industrial environmental monitoring · +2 more

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RauanNTech

ManufacturerAtyrau

Atyrau-based Kazakhstani manufacturer of oilfield and refining chemical reagents, producing demulsifiers, corrosion and scale inhibitors, biocides, H2S and hydrate-formation inhibitors for production operations, plus antifoams, coking inhibitors and metal passivators for refineries. The company reports over 140,000 tonnes supplied and 150-plus field trials for Kazakhstan clients.

Reagent selection and lab testing · Field trial and implementation support · Demulsifiers · Corrosion inhibitors · +4 more

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Intertek Kazakhstan

Service companyAtyrau +6

Kazakhstan business of the UK-based assurance, testing and inspection group Intertek, with its registered office in Atyrau and an office in Almaty. It provides petroleum, fuel, gas and chemical testing and cargo inspection alongside technical inspection, vendor inspection and asset and pipeline integrity services. Intertek lists facilities in Aktau, Almaty, Atyrau, Kyzylorda, Shymkent, Taldykorgan and Oral.

Crude oil, fuel and petroleum product testing · Natural gas and petrochemical analysis · Petroleum cargo inspection · Oil condition monitoring · +2 more

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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

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SGS Kazakhstan

Service companyAtyrau

Kazakhstan subsidiary of the Swiss testing, inspection and certification group SGS, with an office in Atyrau. It provides oil, gas and chemical trade inspection, petroleum product and gas testing, and laboratory testing of petroleum and chemicals. In 2022 SGS opened a testing laboratory at the Kazakhstan Petrochemical Industries (KPI) gas-chemical complex in Atyrau region.

Oil, gas and chemical trade inspection · Petroleum product testing · Natural gas analysis · Laboratory testing of petroleum and chemicals · +1 more

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Azimut Energy Services

Service companyAlmaty

Kazakhstani geophysical service company based in Almaty, positioned as the successor to the Soviet-era production geological association PGO Kazgeofizika. It carries out 2D/3D seismic surveys on land and in the transit zone, plus magnetic, gravity and electrical exploration for oil, gas and solid minerals, and also offers environmental monitoring and laboratory analysis.

2D/3D seismic acquisition (land & transit zone) · Vertical seismic profiling (VSP) · Gravity, magnetic and electrical exploration · Airborne laser scanning · +1 more

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Core Laboratories

Service companyAktau

Core Laboratories is a reservoir description, production enhancement and reservoir management company. In Kazakhstan it operates through its petroleum-inspection subsidiary Saybolt, registered as ТОО Saybolt Inspection Services Kazakhstan, which performs independent cargo inspection and quality/quantity surveying from a base in Aktau serving Caspian crude-export operations.

Independent cargo inspection · Crude oil quality and quantity surveying · Petroleum laboratory testing