Reservoir engineering and modelling in Kazakhstan

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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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KazOilServ

Service companyAktobe

KazOilServ is an Aktobe-based well-testing service company founded in 2014, staffed by more than 30 Kazakhstani specialists. It provides slickline/rope operations, surface well testing, surface and downhole PVT sampling, hydrodynamic research and interpretation, production logging and well-optimization modelling.

Slickline/rope well operations · Surface well testing · PVT sampling · Hydrodynamic research and interpretation · +2 more

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Reservoir Evaluation Services (RES)

Service companyAlmaty

Almaty-based integrated subsurface consultancy formed from a branch of AGR Petroleum Services, with geophysical group CGG (now Viridien) taking a minority stake in 2013 and turning its former Almaty processing centre into RES's own processing department. RES offers seismic processing and interpretation, geological and reservoir modelling, field development planning and reserves estimation for Kazakhstan operators.

Seismic data processing and interpretation · Time and depth (AVO, 4D) seismic processing · Geological and petrophysical modelling · Reservoir simulation · +2 more

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DeGolyer and MacNaughton

Service companyAstana

US petroleum consulting firm operating a Central Europe/Asia division with a branch office in Astana staffed by around 20 geologists, petrophysicists and reservoir/production engineers. The Astana team has evaluated more than 150 Kazakhstan fields and works with the national oil company on reserve classification and development practices.

Reserves and resources classification · Field evaluation and reservoir management · Well completion and production optimisation advisory · Staff mentoring and best-practice transfer

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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