Uzbeks Open Gas Province

摘要

Uzbekistan has launched development of a new gas province in the Bukhara-Khiva Basin in the southwest, state Uzbekneftegas said Wednesday. The $136.5 million project covers three fields in the Dayakhatyn area - Dayakhatyn, Khodzhykazgan and Kylbeshkak - discovered in the 1990s. Work will cover upstream development, as well as the construction of gas transport infrastructure, an Uzbekneftegas official said. He said the aim is to produce up to 2 Bcm/yr by 2014; the state firm will finance the project on its own. Uzbekistan is the largest gas producer in the former Soviet Union after Russia and Turkmenistan. Its gas output totaled 61.408 Bcm in 2009, down 3.7% from a year earlier, while oil and condensate production slid 7.3% to around 33 million bbl.