BAKU, Azerbaijan, Oct. 15
By Klavdiya Romakayeva - Trend:
This year it is planned to put into operation five production facilities of Uzbekneftegaz worth $4.1 million within the framework of the State Investment Program, Trend reports referring to Uzbekneftegaz.
According to the State Investment Program, approved by the decree of the President of Uzbekistan, from January through September 2020, work was performed on 11 investment projects of Uzbekneftegaz JSC.
On August 28 of this year, construction work was completed at the Mubarek gas processing plant within the framework of the project for the construction of a 4-string plant for the production of the propane-butane mixture, and the facility was put into operation. At the same time, 66 new jobs were created and the possibility of producing 38,400 tons of liquefied gas per year.
On September 30, 2020, the project for the development of the Denizkul, Khojidavlat, and Vostochny Alat gas condensate fields was completed and natural gas production of up to one billion cubic meters and 6,400 tons of gas condensate per year was started.
In November, the construction of a propane-butane mixture production unit at the gas-sulfur treatment facilities of the Gazli oil and gas production department will be completed. The production of an additional 80,000 tons of liquefied gas per year will be launched and 117 new jobs will be created.
In addition, the modernization of the units for the production of the propane-butane mixture (UPPBS-3/1, 2, 5) belonging to the Shurtan oil and gas production department will be completed, which will make it possible to produce 61,000 tons of liquefied gas per year.
The production of liquefied synthetic fuel (Gas-to-Liquids) based on purified methane of the Shurtan Gas Chemical Complex, construction, and installation work will be fully completed in December. As a result, the plant will process 3.6 billion cubic meters of natural gas and produce 1.5 million tons of environmentally friendly synthetic liquid fuel per year.
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