KazTransOil Research and Development Centre (CIR)
In-house research and design centre of KazTransOil JSC — a branch of the company, not a separate legal entity; it is based in Astana, with design-estimate bureaus also in Aktau and Pavlodar. According to the company, it was created on 3 September 2000 as the Science and Technology Centre branch and renamed the Research and Development Centre in May 2020; since 25 December 2023 it has been located at M. Gabdullin Street 2 in Astana. It prepares design-estimate documentation for the investment programme and overhaul of KazTransOil's own facilities — trunk oil pipelines, oil pumping stations, tanks and tank farms — together with the environmental sections and emission-limit projects for them. According to the company, the centre runs laboratories for oil and petroleum products, physical and chemical methods, and corrosion; at the end of 2025 the branch had 127 employees (KazTransOil annual report). It designs only for KazTransOil itself: no work for outside clients was found in public sources, and all licences are held by KazTransOil JSC.