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Stage 3 – the way forward
The work of stages 1 and 2 was consolidated in Stage 3 at a workshop in June 2012. The
community that began the process in 2010 reconvened (133 attendees on this occasion) to
review the mass of information generated up until that point and to form a collective view on
the way forward for the industry. For each of the 15 challenges, the workshop participants set
technology milestones, defined R&D focus areas and listed local industry opportunities.
The participants at this workshop also looked at the crucial question of enablers: actions with
the potential, for example, to ease the import of technology into the country, incentivise R&D and
foster wider collaboration with companies and organisations in other countries. Policy measures
of this kind used by four other countries, Brazil, China, Malaysia and Norway, were also
examined at this stage.
The main outcomes of this stage were reported in:
Report F issued by Shell (SR.12.13425): Roadmap Technical Workshop Report
Stage 4 – outcomes and actions
Stage 4 has been all about convergence and has involved filtering all the information,
intelligence and analysis generated during the process in order to develop a clear set of
compelling messages for senior policy-makers in Kazakhstan.
This could be viewed as the communication stage of the process, when the accent turned from
technology to the question of what best to do next, what actions to take. It was during Stage 4
that the roadmap really began to take shape.
Some of the work was undertaken at two smaller workshops (15–30 participants), which
were facilitated by technology roadmapping consultants from the University of Cambridge,
UK. Representatives from the IOCs, KING, KMG and the government of Kazakhstan worked
together to review the information contained within the six earlier reports (A – F), to strengthen
the links between the different layers within the roadmap, to set timelines and to establish
technology priorities. The final presentation of the roadmap (as contained in this document)
was undertaken mainly by subject matter experts from Shell with the support of a number of
individuals and groups from a wide cross-section of the industry.
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Stage 4 has been all about convergence and has
involved filtering all the information, intelligence
and analysis generated during the process
in order to develop a clear set of compelling
messages for senior policy-makers in Kazakhstan.
Kazakhstan Upstream oil and gas technology and R&D roadmap