Kazakhstan upstream summary
Report summary
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Key facts
- Location maps
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Key companies
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NC KazMunaiGas (NC KMG)
- IPO plans
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State-owned midstream operators
- QazaqGaz (formerly KazTransGas)
- KazTransOil (KTO)
- Majors
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Other IOCs
- Asian operators
- Russian operators
- Western operators
- Local operators
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Kazakh service sector
- Local content
- Local supply chain
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NC KazMunaiGas (NC KMG)
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Geology
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Introduction
- Efforts to promote frontier basins
- Precaspian basin
- Structural elements
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Stratigraphy
- Pre-salt
- Post-salt
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Plays
- Pre-salt
- Post-salt
- North Ustyurt and East Aral basins
- Structure
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Reservoirs
- North Ustyurt basin
- East Aral basin
- Mangyshlak basin
- Structure
- Reservoirs
- Hydrocarbon quality
- South Turgai basin
- Structure
- Reservoirs
- Chu-Sarisu basin
- Structure
- Reservoirs
- Hydrocarbon quality
- Zaisan basin
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Other basins
- Ili basin
- Syrdarya basin
- Teniz basin
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Introduction
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Exploration
- Licensing
- Overview
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Onshore
- Online auctions (2020 onwards)
- Previous licensing rounds
- Ad-hoc awards
- Ultra-deep Eurasia project
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Offshore
- Active licences
- Relinquished licences
- Cross-border blocks (Russia)
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Drilling
- Drilling activity
- Overview
- Soviet-era exploration
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Modern exploration
- Offshore
- Onshore
- Coalbed methane (CBM)
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Reserves and resources
- Conversion factors
- Transition to Western reserve standards
- Reserves by basin
- Reserves by shore status
- Liquids
- Sales gas
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Production
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Liquids
- Overview
- Historical production
- Current and future production
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Gas
- Overview
- Historical sales production
- Current and future sales production
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Liquids
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Infrastructure
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Introduction
- Recent investment priorities
- Pipeline tariffs
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Oil infrastructure
- Overview
- Existing liquids pipelines
- Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC)
- Uzen-Atyrau-Samara (UAS)
- Kazakhstan-China Oil Pipeline
- Other pipelines
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Proposed liquids pipelines
- Kazakhstan Caspian Transportation System (KCTS)
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Rail and sea transportation
- Rail infrastructure
- Ports and shipping
- Refineries
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Gas infrastructure
- Overview
- Existing gas pipelines
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West Kazakhstan
- Central Asia-Centre (CAC)
- Uzen-Aktau
- Soyuz Orenburg-Alexandrov Gai
- Makat-Atyrau-Astrakhanskoye
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Central Kazakhstan
- Bukhara-Ural
- Zhanazhol-Aktobe-Krasnyy Oktyabr
- Zhanazhol - KC-13 (Bukhara-Ural)
- Kartaly-Kostanay
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East Kazakhstan
- Beineu-Bozoi-Akbulak (Shymkent) (BBA pipeline)
- Bukhara-Tashkent-Bishkek-Almaty
- Saryarka
- Turkmenistan-China Gas Pipeline
- Other pipelines
- Gas processing plants
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Gas-feed projects
- Atyrau Gas Chemical Complex (AGCC)
- Other proposed gas monetisation projects
- Gas storage
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Introduction
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Costs
- Introduction
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Capital costs
- Capital expenditure by location
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Operating costs
- Operating expenditure by location
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Policy and regulation
- Key legislation
- Background
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Current legislation
- Tax Code
- Subsoil Use Code
- Law on Gas and Gas Supply
- Environmental Code
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Key considerations
- Local content
- Environmental
- Finance
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Regulatory body
- Ministry of Energy
- Ministry of Finance
- Ministry of National Economy
- Samruk-Kazyna
- National Oil Fund
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State oil company
- NC KMG subsidiaries
- International boundaries
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Legal status of the Caspian Sea
- Overview
- North Caspian Sea
- South Caspian Sea
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Fiscal terms
- Overview
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Upstream
- Tax stability
- Midstream / downstream
- Current fiscal terms
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Concession
- Current Tax Code
- State equity participation
- Bonuses, rentals and fees
- Mineral Extraction Tax (MET)
- Rent Tax on Export
- Oil Export Customs Duty (ECD)
- Road / property / land tax
- Environmental / CO2 taxes
- Corporate Income Tax (CIT)
- Contractor revenue entitlement
- Liquids and natural gas pricing
- Abandonment fund
- Domestic market obligation (DMO)
- Excess Profit Tax (EPT)
- Alternative Subsoil Tax (AST)
- Fiscal/contractual ring-fences
- Dividend withholding tax / branch profit tax
- Indirect taxes
- Sample cash flow
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PSCs
- Overview
- Profit sharing
- Corporate Income Tax (CIT)
Tables and charts
This report includes 66 images and tables including:
- Liquids production by field
- Gas sales by field
- Key facts: Table 1
- Country map
- Kazakhstan: recent block awards
- Kazakhstan: active blocks by basin
- Reserves and resources: Table 1
- Liquids and gas reserves
- Reserves and resources: Table 2
- Liquids reserves by basin
- Gas reserves by basin
- Reserves and resources: Table 3
- Contingent resources
- Reserves and resources: Table 5
- Infrastructure: Table 3
- Liquids and Gas Production 2022
- Reserves and contingent resources at 01/01/2023
- Capital Expenditure 2022
- Net Acreage 2023
- Kazakhstan: basin map
- Precaspian basin (east and southeast): simplified stratigraphy
- North Ustyurt basin: simplified stratigraphy
- Exploration: Table 1
- Exploration: Table 2
- West Kazakhstan: current licences
- East Kazakhstan: current licences
- Kazakh sector of Caspian Sea: current licences
- Liquids production by basin
- Production: Table 1
- Production: Table 2
- Production: Table 3
- Production: Table 4
- Liquids production by field
- Production: Table 5
- Production: Table 6
- Gas sales by basin
- Production: Table 7
- Production: Table 8
- Production: Table 9
- Production: Table 10
- Gas sales by field
- Production: Table 11
- Production: Table 12
- Infrastructure: Table 1
- West Kazakhstan: existing and planned liquids pipelines
- East Kazakhstan: existing and planned liquids pipelines
- Infrastructure: Table 2
- Infrastructure: Table 4
- Kazakhstan: existing and planned gas pipelines
- West Kazakhstan: existing and planned gas pipelines
- East Kazakhstan: existing and planned gas pipelines
- Infrastructure: Table 5
- Costs: Table 1
- Costs: Table 2
- Costs: Table 3
- Costs: Table 4
- Caspian Sea map
- Fiscal terms: Table 1
- Fiscal terms: Table 2
- Fiscal terms: Table 3
- Fiscal terms: Table 4
- Fiscal terms: Table 5
- Fiscal terms: Table 6
- Fiscal terms: Table 7
- Fiscal terms: Table 8
- Fiscal terms: Table 9
What's included
This report contains:
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