In the reporting period, KMG continued to implement digital projects aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goals for industrialization, innovation and infrastructure, as well as progressive reduction of carbon intensity of production.

On October 22, 2022, a new Dispatch and Analytical Center (DAC) was opened in the KMG building. The difference of the new DAC is the construction of a single digital platform of the full cycle “extraction, transportation, processing, marketing of oil and its refined products”. Thus, DAC allows monitoring, control, analysis, storage, collection and processing of data in all areas of KMG’s activities. In addition, the analytical system of the DAC is integrated with the production management information system at the Pavlodar and Atyrau refineries, which allows for technological monitoring of the equipment condition online, operational dispatch management and the material balance of products.

In the digitalization of oil production, we are talking about a large-scale project ABAI information system development. This system consists of 17 independent modules, each of which is aimed at optimizing business processes in exploration, drilling, field operation, economic impact assessment and others. At the initial stage, in 2021, 5 pilot modules of the system were put into operation – “ABAI Database”, “Visualization Center”, “Technological mode”, “Monitoring of complications”, “Selection of deep pumping equipment” (SDPE), which proved their productivity. For example, the “Selection of deep pumping equipment” module provides on-line assessment of new and existing well potential, economic analysis of operating method efficiency, automated equipment selection, unloading of reports, electronic work order and work plan for running in. Thanks to the introduction of the module, the time for these operations has been reduced from 30 to 5 minutes, and the inter-repair period for DPE has increased from 88 to 144 days.

Two new modules of the system were launched in 2022 – “Formation fluids” in Kazakhoil Aktobe LLP and “Economics” in KMG Corporate Center. The first module is designed to automate the process of collecting, interpreting and substantiating the properties of fluids contained in oil reservoirs.

The “Economics” module allows to estimate the value of oil companies’ assets in general and in terms of existing fields, forecast operating activities using different scenarios.

10 more ABAI IS modules are scheduled to be launched by the end of 2024.

In 2022, the project on the introduction of computer simulator complexes (CSC) at the technological installations of enterprises continued at oil refineries. With the help of CSCs, plant operators in virtual mode work out production management in emergency and routine situations. Such an automated personnel training system (APTS) minimizes failures associated with the human factor, and also increases the level of security.

According to the project plans, simulators will be implemented in total at 13 technological installations of the Atyrau Refinery, 9 of the Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant, and 1 installation of PetroKazakhstan Oil Products. During the year, CSC were implemented on the equipment of the ELU-AT, oil desalting, catalytic reforming, and LK-6U complex units at the Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant. In 2023, it is planned to cover installations for vacuum distillation of oil, hydrotreating of VGO, catalytic cracking, absorption and gas fractionation units of the KT-1 complex.

According to the plans, the implementation of CSC is expected to be completed at the ELU-AT-2 and ELU-AVT-3 units at the Atyrau Refinery. The possibility of joining CDHTU and CGDHTU gasoline hydrotreating units to the APTS is being clarified.

To ensure more systematic and centralized work to promote digitalization, structural changes have been implemented in the corporate center of KMG – the departments of information technology and transformation and digitalization have been merged into one department of digital development (DDD). The new unit will develop or update the IT architecture and data management as the basis for the subsequent digital development of the company, as well as the search for advanced industry solutions in the areas of production, transportation and processing of KMG.