Witteveen+Bos Caspian
Kazakhstan company of the Dutch consulting and engineering firm Witteveen+Bos — Witteveen+Bos Caspian LLP, with offices in Almaty, Atyrau and Aktau; according to the company, its first office in Kazakhstan opened in Aktau in 2001, followed by Atyrau in 2003 and Almaty in 2007. By its own description, it designs civil and marine infrastructure for oil and gas projects rather than process plant: artificial islands and ice-protection structures, marine access channels, ports and cargo offloading facilities, access roads, industrial wastewater treatment. According to the company, its experts have worked in Kazakhstan since 1997 and have designed Kashagan's islands since 1998; for Tengizchevroil it carried out, from 2012, the feasibility study, environmental impact assessment, surveys, FEED and detailed design of the Cargo Transportation Route (CaTRo), and for NCOC the design of the Kashagan marine access channels from pre-FEED to detailed design (the first phase of the channels was then planned to be operational at the end of 2021). NCOC's mandate for the front-end engineering of the channels was also reported by Energy Intelligence in April 2021. Outside oil and gas the company works on water management, urban mobility and remediation.