Astana, 22 October. The Energy Ministry is building a single digital accounting system for oil and oil products "from the well to the filling station", which is to cover 20% of energy resource turnover in 2026, 60% in 2027 and 80% in 2028; progress was shown during a site visit to a filling station and an oil depot with Kurultai deputy Bekzhan Alimkulov.
The visit was attended by Deputy Energy Minister Bakytzhan Iliyas and representatives of the Kazakhstan Fuel Association and the Information and Accounting Centre. At the filling station and depot they were shown how oil products are measured and accounted for when received, stored and dispensed; they discussed the reliability of accounting data, its automatic transfer to state systems and the integration of information systems.
At a KazMunayGas site, with the Finance Ministry and Atameken National Chamber of Entrepreneurs chairman Kanat Sharlapayev taking part, digital tools for monitoring the turnover of oil products were demonstrated. They are to be integrated with industry systems. A single accounting system, the ministry believes, will make it possible to compare data at every stage, spot discrepancies in time, reduce losses and make turnover more transparent. The work is part of the Digital Qazaqstan digitalisation strategy.
Why the system is being built is clear from the data of the control bodies. In July 2026 border guards detected 1,342 attempts to illegally take out more than 112 tonnes of fuel, while mobile teams of the State Revenue Committee stopped 392 violations involving more than 16,000 litres and ordered 103 inspections of border filling stations and mini-refineries.
What it means: The state wants to see every tonne of oil and every litre of fuel along the whole route, from the field to a car's tank. Only a minority of turnover is covered by such accounting now; by 2028 it should be 80%.
Who benefits: The Energy and Finance ministries: transparent accounting makes control, tax collection and the fight against grey fuel exports easier. Honest filling stations and depots face less risk of competing with sellers of unrecorded fuel; those who smuggle it will find it harder.
Background: A day earlier it emerged that the Digital TsKRR system for online approval of oil and gas projects, also linked to Energy Ministry infrastructure, had been created.
List of sources used: Energy Ministry of Kazakhstan, BES.media
Artificial intelligence was used in preparing this material.
