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UZBEKISTAN

Former Soviet Union

  

Uzbekistan is an important producer of natural gas and was producing large volumes after the Soviet Union broke up in 1990. The country’s first major gas discovery was the Gazli field in 1957 in the Amu-Daria Basin in southwestern Uzbekistan along the border with Turkmenistan.

 

Subsequently other large fields were found in the same area, and smaller fields were drilled in the Fergana Valley in the east. Uzbekistan has five remote oil and gas bearing regions - Usturt, Bikhara-Khiva, Gissar, Surhandarya and Fergana and drilling in all of them by the state company, Uzbekneftegaz, increased through the 1990s. Production of oil increased up to 1998 but seems now to be decreasing.

 

This fact has encouraged the government to reverse its policy of self-reliance and invite foreign companies to participate. New EOR programmes on some fields may maintain production rates but will probably not reverse the overall decline from the now well-explored small basin areas.

 

Exports of gas go to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan whilst internal markets are the residential/commercial sector, power stations, CHP and district heating plants, and fuel/feedstock for industrial users. Some CNG is used in motor vehicles.

                                                                                          

 

CAPITAL

 Tashkent

 

Population

 27.3 million

 

Onshore area

(000's sq kms)

447.4

 

Offshore area

(000's sq kms)

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OIL PEAK YEAR

1998

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