This profile describes a fully-formed property complex operating as an oil depot for petroleum product storage. It is located in the Aktobe region, Kargalinsky district, Badamsha village, Republic of Kazakhstan.

The property complex was acquired in March 2021. Significant capital expenditures totaling 395 million tenge were invested in modernization and renewal between June 2021 and April 2022. This included thorough defectoscopy, large-scale modernization work (replacing elements with more effective ones), and restoration or replacement of individual components, particularly the tank farm and fuel line. Testing works, such as drainage/filling, pumping systems, and hydraulic testing of fuel lines and tanks, were conducted from April 2022 to June 2022. The modernization project received support from JSC Bank RBK and the DAMU Fund through the Business Roadmap 2025 Program.

The market value of the complex was assessed at 366 million tenge by JSC Bank RBK in March 2021. With an additional 395 million tenge in capital expenditures, the total cost was 761 million tenge. As of February 2024, an independent appraisal by TNK-Otsenka determined the market value to be 1.292 billion tenge.

Key Features

• Land Area: The complex includes a land plot of 4.9535 hectares.
• Infrastructure:
  • Administrative and Household Complex: Spanning 374.3 sq.m.
  • Warehouses, Garages, and Boxes: Included within the property.
  • Tank Farm: A total volume of 6,800 cubic meters, comprising 13 tanks (RVS #1-8 at 750m³ each, RVS #9, 12, 13 at 200m³ each, and RVS #10, 11 at 100m³ each).
  • Railway Dead-end: Features 781 meters of railway tracks on a 0.0673-hectare land plot, with 4 autonomous posts, 4 sets of upper filling devices, and 4 sets of lower discharge devices.
• Utilities & Systems: The oil depot is equipped with electricity, water supply, gas supply, sewerage, telephony, internet, fire signaling, and video surveillance systems, forming a sufficient and fully functional “life support” system.

SWOT Analysis

• Strengths: Availability of all necessary infrastructure, a sufficient and fully formed complex of communication equipment, high level of technical condition, and presence of own railways and a highway.
• Weaknesses: Remoteness from the regional center (Aktobe city).
• Opportunities: Advantageous geographical location (80 km from Orsk Oil Refinery, 30 km from the Khromtau – China-Europe international highway construction), potential inclusion in the list of participants in the oil products trade market, and proximity to agricultural producers (state incentives during spring field work).
• Threats: High degree of supervision and regulation by authorized government bodies.