BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan. 20
By Fakhri Vakilov - Trend:
Uzbekistan may stop exporting natural gas by 2025, as was stated by Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov at a meeting of the political council of Uzbekistan’s Liberal Democratic Party in Tashkent, Trend reports citing Uzbek media.
According to him, Uzbekistan plans to completely process gas and produce value-added products.
“By 2025, measures will be taken to stop the export of natural gas and its full processing within the country, as well as expand the production of value-added products,” the head of government said.
Moreover, Aripov added, special attention will be paid to the widespread use of alternative energy sources in the field of electricity production.
Aripov noted that before the end of 2020, electronic consumers of gas and electricity will be installed for all consumers, which will reduce energy consumption and prevent problems associated with the calculation of unrealistic payments.
Prime Minister stated that the development of the fuel and energy sector will be taken to a new level. By 2030, it is planned to increase electricity production by almost 2 times, petroleum products - by 1.8 times, natural gas production - by 1.2 times, coal - by 3.3 times.
In July 2019, Uzbekistan first revealed the structure of gas exports. According to published data, in 2018, Uzbekistan exported 13 billion cubic meters of gas, and in 2019, the supply of more than 15 billion cubic meters was contracted.
In the structure of gas exports for 2019, the volume of deliveries to China was to be 8 billion cubic meters, to Russia - 4.5 billion, the southern regions of Kazakhstan - 2.5 billion, other Central Asian countries - 500-550 million cubic meters.
In total, 61 billion cubic meters of gas are produced in Uzbekistan, of which 35–40 billion cubic meters are produced by Uzbekneftegaz.
The candidacy of the current head of government Abdullah Aripov was proposed by the Liberal Democratic Party party for the post of prime minister of the country for another term. The candidacy should be considered by the president, and then approved by parliament.
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