The efficiency of outsourcing and the issues of its USE in the activities of oil and gas companies

Abstract

Transfer of supporting business processes is a widely used business practice worldwide.
The basis of management of any business is the development of strategy, its adaptation to the specifics of
the company and implementation. The process of strategy development is based on a thorough study of
all possible directions of development and activity and consists in the selection of the general direction,
mastered markets, served needs, methods of competition, attracted resources and business models. One of
the strategic methods aimed at improving the efficiency of the company is to outsource non-critical business
processes and production facilities of the company. The article highlights the problems of outsourcing in
the activities of oil and gas companies in Kazakhstan, as well as the authors give some recommendations
to solve the problems, namely, the features of the organization of production in the oil and gas industry, a
procedural model to ensure the competitiveness of oil and gas industry, the mechanism of reengineering
of oil and gas industry. The research methods are used: comparison and analogy; unity of objective and
subjective in the development of economic processes; expert assessments; content-analysis of documents
and research materials.