Editor❜s Note
Buy Domestic
Buy Domestic. This slogan was first voiced in the oil and gas industry in 2009. At that time, the combined share of domestic goods and services in subsoil users’ procurement stood at just 9.3%.
To fundamentally change the situation, the government submitted to Parliament a bill regulating Kazakhstani content and established the Kazakhstan Contract Agency. Around the same time, the ST-KZ certificate of origin was introduced.
Since then, the fight for Kazakhstani content has proceeded with mixed results. According to the Association of Oil Service Companies of Kazakhstan KazService, whose chairman opens this issue with an interview, the share of domestic goods in procurement reached 12% by the end of last year. The benchmark still to be achieved, in his words, is 40-50%.
Last year, Kazakhstani content finally came into focus for lawmakers, as executives from the three megaprojects and from companies with Chinese participation were called to report before the relevant parliamentary committee. We hope this practice will continue in the new Parliament.
For our part, in this issue, we are publishing information to help domestic suppliers of goods and services secure contracts with oil and gas companies. This is a KPO B.V.'s procurement plan. In the April issue, we will publish the procurement plans for the operators of the Tengiz and Kashagan projects.
There is still a great deal of work ahead.
Respectfully,
Oleg Chervinskiy
Publisher