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SMART Engineering

Service companyAlmaty+1smartengineering.kz
VerifiedKazakhstan companyDesign institutesReservoir EngineeringEnvironmental Services

What they do

A privately owned design company in Almaty; according to the company, it was created in 2006 and has an office in Atyrau.

It prepares exploration and appraisal projects, field development projects and their addenda, technical projects for well construction and projects for liquidating the consequences of subsoil use, with its own environmental sections; according to the company, it also produces reserves estimates for the State Commission on Reserves, trial production projects, development analyses, author supervision reports and raw gas processing programmes.

Public-hearing notices of 2022–2026 name the company as developer of the development projects for the Zhamansu, Alimbay, Karataykyz and Mynteke South fields, of an addendum to the Kemerkol field development project and of exploration projects for the Zharkent, Maksat, Elek, Kargaly, Tastobe, Tepke and Karaturun East areas; the state procurement register shows two executed contracts with the West Kazakhstan Interregional Department of Geology (2020 and 2021). According to the company, it has completed 498 projects for 98 clients, 276 of them defended at the Central Commission for Exploration and Development, and 47 of its reserves reports have been approved by the State Commission on Reserves.

As stated by the organisation, it holds state licences for the design of mining production in the oil and gas industry, for environmental protection works (class 1) and for design and survey activity.

Key competencies

  • Exploration and appraisal projects
  • Field development projects
  • Well construction design
  • Projects for liquidating the consequences of subsoil use
  • Reserves estimates for the State Commission on Reserves (according to the company)
Legal entity
ТОО «СМАРТ Инжиниринг»
Company type
Service company
Founded
2006

Services

  • Exploration (prospecting) projects and their addenda
  • Appraisal projects
  • Field development projects and their addenda
  • Individual and group technical projects for well construction
  • Projects for liquidating the consequences of subsoil use
  • Environmental sections for projects: reports on possible impacts, environmental protection sections, emission standards
  • Design and estimate documentation for seismic surveys
  • Oil and gas reserves estimates with recovery-factor feasibility studies (according to the company)
  • Trial production projects (according to the company)
  • Development analysis and author supervision (according to the company)
  • Raw gas processing development programmes (according to the company)

Products & equipment

The company focuses on services — no products listed.

Industries

Upstream (E&P)

Categories

Design institutesReservoir EngineeringEnvironmental Services

Locations

Regions

AlmatyAtyrau Region

Offices, bases and facilities

  • AlmatyHeadquarters
  • AtyrauOffice

Projects and clients in Kazakhstan

As reported in public sources
  • Almaty Oil Ventures – exploration project for the Zharkent block, Zhetysu and Almaty regions (2025)
  • Almex Plus – exploration (appraisal) project for the Maksat structure (2026)
  • KazNefteGazProekt – exploration projects for the Elek and Kargaly blocks with environmental reports (2025)
  • Petrocraft – group technical project for drilling wells R-15, R-16 and R-17 at the Kaskyrbulak South field, with environmental section (2025)
  • Turan-Barlau – liquidation projects for the Kumdala and Maikyz fields; group well project and well facilities working project at Kumdala, with BM Production (2025)
  • BRP Oil – Zhamansu field development project (2024)
  • Nomad West Oil – exploration project for the Tastobe area, Mangystau Region (2024)
  • Altius Petroleum International – Alimbay field development project (2023) and Karataykyz field development project (2022)
  • AP-Nafta Operating – addendum to the Kemerkol field development project (2023)
  • Prikaspian Petroleum Company – Mynteke South field development project (2022)
  • Tepke – appraisal-stage exploration projects for the Tepke and Tepke West structures and technical projects for appraisal wells (2022–2023)
  • West Kazakhstan Interregional Department of Geology – design and estimate documentation for 2D seismic on Block No. 4, North Turgay basin (2021)
  • Mangistau Neftedobycha – reserves estimates for the Sarsenbai and Uilyuk fields, contracts of 2023 (according to the company)
  • Maersk Oil Kazakhstan – operational reserves estimate and trial production project for the Valanginian horizon of the Dunga field, 2008 (according to the company)

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