The aim of the research consists in multilane linguistic research and the description of sources of formation, ways of formation terms structural-semantic, nomination- motivational and functional properties of terms of oil and gas on a material of English and Kazakh languages.
The object of research is unicomponent and multicomponent terms of oil and gas of English and Kazakh languages.
The subject of research is structural-semantic, motivational and functional characteristics of unicomponent and multicomponent terms of oil-and-gas branch in considered languages.
For research of specificity of a lexico-semantic field «oil and gas» have served as a material the terms of English and Kazakh languages selected from dictionaries which quantity has made approximately 2200 units.