As XP Group is expanding its activity in the Republic of Kazakhstan, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Askhat Duisaliyev as Director General of XP Kazakhstan
Mr. Duisaliyev has over 20 years of experience in the oil & gas industry in Kazakhstan. Before joining XP, he held key leadership positions in both private and quasi-public sectors. Most recently, he served as the Director of the Oilfield Services and Crude Hydrocarbon Disposal Projects Department at JSC National Company “KazMunaiGas”. During his tenure at KMG, Askhat played a pivotal role in ensuring operational and strategic excellence, and achieving positive results for the largest oil-producing assets.
Prior to KMG, Askhat demonstrated exceptional leadership abilities and strategic vision as the President of KazPetroDrilling, the largest private oilfield services holding in Kazakhstan. Under his guidance, the group of ten subsidiary oilfield services companies experienced significant growth and expanded its services offering, establishing itself as an industry leader.
“Kazakhstan has a large untapped potential to grow its domestic oil and gas production from mature onshore assets, while reducing their emissions and environmental footprint. Askhat, with his broad experience and impeccable reputation in the country, is the right person to lead XP Kazakhstan and to successfully deploy our unique operating model to achieve production increase and environmental footprint reduction”, said David Martinon, CEO of XP Group.
XP is an international upstream oil and gas operating service company, part of GMS holding. XP employs over 1’000 people and managing 28 mature oil and gas fields with 600+ producing wells in Romania and Ukraine in partnership with OMV Petrom and Naftogaz under the production enhancement contracts (PEC). XP invests in mature fields’ development, applying a unique data driven operating model, deploying fit for purpose technologies to enhance their production and reserves, increasing operational efficiency, and reducing environmental footprint, in order to make them more sustainable.
