• Key performance data for the exploration and production sector. This section presents the sector’s major performance indicators: meters drilled, rates of production, and scopes of well servicing and workover operations.
• Overview of major customers. This section looks at customer requirements for drilling, well intervention and enhanced oil recovery applications. It also discusses the sector’s new promising projects.
• Key customer profiles. The section focuses on the companies’ main operating regions and services they provide, as well as on the oilfield service companies’ productive capabilities.
• Medium-term forecast of production and drilling for 2013 through 2020. This section assesses the future prospects of major production projects and producers’ drilling plans.
• Comments on the future of oilfield service providers’ operations in Kazakhstan’s market. The section offers insights on oilfield service companies’ growth prospects in Kazakhstan’s market (in particular identifying promising market segments), analyses the main risks and offers recommendations regarding individual companies’ potential presence in the region.

Conclusions 
1 Production sector key performance data 
1.1 Oil production 
1.2 Gas production 
2 Kazakhstan’s Well Servicing and Workover Operations 
2.1 Drilling market 
2.1.1 Exploration drilling 
2.1.2 Production drilling 
2.1.3 Contractors 
2.2 Workover 
2.2.1 Workover market 
2.2.2 Well servicing market 
2.3 Well stimulation and cementing markets 
2.3.1Fracturing 
2.3.2 Coil tubing 
2.3.3 Well cementing 
2.3.4Sidetracking 
2.3.5 HC1 acid bottom hole zone treatment 
2.3.6 Optimization of mechanized well stock operation conditions 
2.3.7 Transition of wells into another operation mode 
2.3.8 Commissioning of idle wells 
2.4 Well testing 
2.5 Market distribution by main regions in the Republic of Kazakhstan 
2.5.1 The Mangistau region 
2.5.2 The Kyzylorda region 
2.5.3 The Atyrau region 
2.5.4 The Aktyubinsk region 
2.5.5 West Kazakhstan region 
2.6 Customers 
2.7 Contractors 
2.7.1 Halliburton

2.7.2 Weatherford 
2.7.3 Expro 
2.7.4 Neftserviceholding 
2.7.5Ontustikmunaigas 
2.7.6GC Caspiy 
2.7.7Southeastern Services Group (Neftserviceholding, Perm) 
2.7.8XiBu 
2.7.9 Schlumberger 
3 Medium-term forecast of production and drilling for 2012 througth 2020 
3.1 Oil and gas production 
3.2 Drilling 
4 Commentary on prospects for entering the Kazakhstan market

Chart 1. Forecasts of oil field services market dynamics in Kazakhstan, 2011-2020, USD million.

Chart 2. Contributions by segments to the growth of the oil field services market in Kazakhstan, 2012-2020, %

Chart 1-1. Oil and gas condensate production in Kazakhstan in 2001-2012, mln. tons

Chart 1-2. Oil and gas condensate production in Kazakhstan by regions, %

Chart 1-3. Key oil production companies in Kazakhstan in 2010-2012, mln. Tons

Chart 1-4. Kazakhstan's gas production in 2001-2012, bcm

Chart 2-1. Dynamics of exploration drilling in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2005-2012, thousand meters

Chart 2-2. Exploration drilling in the Republic of Kazakhstan by regions, 2009-2012, thousand m

Chart 2-3. Exploration drilling in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2009-2012, by customers

Chart 2-4. Dynamics of production drilling in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2005-2012, thousand m

Chart 2-5. Production drilling in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2009-2012 by customers, thousand meters per year

Chart 2-6. Production drilling in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2009-2012 by regions

Chart 2-7. Average depth of development wells in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2009-2011 by regions, meters

Chart 2-8. Average depth of development wells in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2009-2011, by some production companies, meters

Chart 2-9. Dynamics of the workover market capacity in Kazakhstan in 2009-2012, operations

Chart 2-10. The workover market in Kazakhstan in 2011and 2012, with the breakdown by regions, %

Chart 2-11. Dynamics of the workover market in Kazakhstan in 2009-2012, with the breakdown by regions, number of operations

Chart 2-12. Dynamics of the well servicing market capacity in Kazakhstan in physical terms in 2009-2012, operations

Chart 2-13. The well servicing market in Kazakhstan with the breakdown by regions, % versus 2011and 2012

Chart 2-14. Dynamics of the well servicing market in Kazakhstan in 2009-2012, by regions, operations

Chart 2-15. The well servicing market in Kazakhstan by key customers, in 2009-2012, number of operations

Chart 2-16. Forecast of the number of fracturing operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan, well-operations, 2012-2020

Chart 2-17. Forecast of the coiltubing market in the Republic of Kazakhstan, jobs, 2012-2020

Chart 2-18. Forecast of new well construction in the Republic of Kazakhstan, wells, 2012-2020

Chart 2-19. Forecast of the number of sidetracking operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2012-2020

Chart 2-20. The number of bottom hole zone treatment operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2009-2012, operations

Chart 2-21. The number of bottom hole zone treatment operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2011 and 2012 with the breakdown by regions,%

Chart 2-22. The number of bottom hole zone treatment operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan with the breakdown by regions, in 2009-2012, operations

Chart 2-23. The number of bottom hole zone treatment operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan with the breakdown by key customers in 2011 and 2012, %

Chart 2-24. The number of bottom hole zone treatment operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan with the breakdown by key customers in 2009-2012, operations

Chart 2-25. Forecast of the number of HC1 acid treatment operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan, thousand operations, 2012-2020

Chart 2-26.The number of operations on optimization of the mechanized well stock conditions in the Republic of Kazakhstan with the breakdown by key customers in 2009-2012, operations

Chart 2-27. The number of the wells transferred into the mechanized stock in the Republic of Kazakhstan with the breakdown by key customers in 2009-2012, units.

Chart 2-28. The number of idle wells commissioned in Kazakhstan in 2009-201, by customers, units

Chart 3-1. Oil production forecast by regions until 2020, mln. tons per year

Chart 3-2. Gas production forecast by regions until 2020, bcm per year

Chart 3-3. Dynamics of the drilling market in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2010-2020, thousand meters Chart 3-4. Forecast: dynamics of commissioning new wells in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2010-2020, units

Chart 3-5. Exploration drilling in the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2013-2020 (completed wells)

Table 1. The capacity of the oil field services market of Kazakhstan by segment, 2012

Table 2. Profile of the production and oil field services industry of Kazakhstan

Table 1-1 Gas production by key players in Kazakhstan in 2010-2012, bcm

Table 2-1. Projects under way on Kazakhstan’s Caspian shelf

Table 2-2. Production drilling market shares of biggest drilling companies in Kazakhstan in 2012, drilling footage, %

Table 2-3. Exploration drilling market shares of biggest drilling companies in Kazakhstan in 2012, drilling footage (%)

Table 2-4. Workover operations in Kazakhstan in 2011-2012, by key customers, with the breakdown by in-house service and contractors

Table 2-5. Well servicing operations in Kazakhstan in 2011-2012, by key customers, with the breakdown by in-house service and contractors

Table 2-6. The number of operations by types: workover, fracturing, cementing and well production testing

Table 2-7. Assessment of market segments’ capacity by types of operations: workover, fracturing, cementing and well production testing

Table 2-8. Market capacity breakdown by Kazakhstan’s key regions, well-operations, 2012

Table 2-9. Number of fracturing operations by key customers in the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2012

Table 2-10. The number of fracturing fleets by key contractors in the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2012

Table 2-11. Key consumers of workover and coiltubing in the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2011

Table 2-12. Breakdown of coil tubing operations by key contractors, 2012

Table 2-13. The number of cementing fleets in the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2012

Table 2-14. Breakdown of primary cementing operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan by key customers, operations, 2012

Table 2-15. Key customers in the sidetracking segment in the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2012

Table 2-16. Breakdown of well servicing and workover operations by customers in the Mangistau region in 2012

Table 2-17. Breakdown of the scope of work performed by the biggest customers in the Mangistau region

Table 2-18. Dynamics and forecast of hydrocarbon production in the Kyzylorda region in 2007-2015

Table 2-19. Breakdown of well servicing and workover operations by customers in the Kyzylorda region, operations

Table 2-20. Breakdown of operations by key customers in the Kyzylorda region, 2012

Table 2-21. Breakdown of well servicing and workover operations by customers in the Atyrau region of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2012, operations

Table 2-22. Breakdown of operations by the largest customers in the Atyrau region

Table 2-23. Breakdown of well servicing and workover operations by customers in the Aktyubinsk region of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2012, operations

Table 2-24. Breakdown of the operations by the largest customers in the Aktyubinsk region, 2012

Table 2-25. Main customers in the Republic of Kazakhstan

Table 2-26. Halliburton’s production capacities in Kazakhstan

Table 2-27 Production capacity and key performance indicators of Ontustikmunaigas

Table 2-28. Production capacity and key performance indicators of UVSG

Table 2-30. Production capacity of Schlumberger in Kazakhstan, 2011

Table 3-1. The most prospective fields in the Republic of Kazakhstan in terms of the drilling footage growth, 2012-2020