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KIOGE 2026: Kazakhstan International Oil & Gas Exhibition
Central Asia's premier oil & gas industry event. KazMunayGas-anchored. Caspian basin operators, growing Russian + Chinese trade dynamics, and increasingly visible Western operator partnerships.
Date
Location
Atakent International Exhibition Centre, Almaty, Kazakhstan
EarthScan
The EarthScan Team
KIOGE 2026 runs 30 September - 2 October at Atakent in Almaty. Three days. The premier Central Asian oil & gas event, anchored by KazMunayGas (Kazakhstan's NOC) and attended by Caspian basin operators, regional service companies, and an increasingly diverse roster of Western technology vendors.
Why Central Asia matters
- Tengiz, Kashagan, Karachaganak: three world-class reservoirs with combined production rivalling mid-tier Middle Eastern producers
- AI/ML adoption in Central Asian operators is strikingly uneven: KazMunayGas is investing heavily; smaller operators are several years behind
- Talent gap is acute: local geoscience workforce is shrinking as the industry's brand attractiveness erodes
- Pre-built AI tooling (like EarthScan) is particularly valuable here for the same reason it's valuable in the GCC: bridge the talent gap with productisation
What we'll watch
- KazMunayGas digital strategy announcements
- Tengizchevroil + NCOC technical sessions
- Russian operator presence: Lukoil, Rosneft activity has shifted post-2022 sanctions; KIOGE is a barometer
- Chinese-Kazakh JV announcements: CNPC + CNOOC partnership trends
EarthScan presence
We don't yet have Central Asian operator partnerships. KIOGE is where we'd ideally have first conversations, possibly via mutual contacts at TPAO (Türkiye, Sprint relationship) or via the Kazakhstan operator engineering community we have research-paper relationships with.
