The oil accounting system in Kazakhstan will start working in 2021

This year will be a special year for the oil and gas industry of Kazakhstan – the Ministry of Energy (hereinafter – the Ministry) together with the Ministry of Digital Development, Innovations and Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan (hereinafter – MDDIAI) on the basis of JSC "NIT" launches an information system for accounting oil and gas condensate (hereinafter – ISAO) in full mode. The mechanism will allow to automate the process of collecting, processing, storing and using data on the amount of crude oil and gas condensate in circulation, prepared for delivery to consumer.

ISAO is created as an effective tool for accounting oil and gas condensate starting from the preparation, transportation, storage, shipment, sale, import and export outside of Kazakhstan. This will also lead to the reduction of human errors when submitting reports and the reduction in the share of paper document flow.

The system of accounting for oil and gas condensate will be integrated with the existing information systems of enterprises operating in the field of oil production, transportation and processing. All data on volumes of production, producing, preparation, processing, transportation, storage, sale, shipment, losses, import and export from Kazakhstan will be transmitted to the information system. Companies may also use the installed metering devices as internal controls or for other purposes.

The authorized body will be able to quickly make decisions at the state level based on operational data, predict the turnover of oil and gas condensate, automatically calculate the material balance and generate reports based on data obtained from metering devices.

At the same time, to obtain point information, all data is received from each organization separately, and reports are generated depending on the activity of enterprise. For example, oil transportation organizations transmit reports on receiving oil from producing organizations, on delivery to oil refining organizations, and on delivery for export.

Now the system has been launched in pilot mode and 3 oil transportation organizations - KazTransOil, Munaitas and  Kazakhstan-China Pipeline - are connected to it. "Caspian Pipeline Consortium" is in the process of connecting. 

This year, it is planned to connect to the system a number of organizations that provide 60% of the total oil production of Kazakhstan. In total, in 2021-2022, 3 oil refineries, 16 mini refineries, 4 oil transportation organizations and 100 subsurface users will send data to ISAO.