Huge gas processing plant upgraded in Uzbekistan
The National Holding Company (NHC) Uzbekneftegaz has completed
the ugrade of $171.8 million worth UDP Mubarek Gas Processing Plant
in Kashkadarya region in the south of the country, Uzbekistan's
Ministry of Economy and the State Statistics Committee said in a
joint statement.
According to the report, the project envisaged the construction of
the seventh stage of gas desulphurization within 3 (16th, 17th,
18th) universal blocks with total capacity of 6 billion cubic
meters per year. The contractors of the construction are the
subdivisions of Uzbekneftegaz NHC.
The 18th block became operational in the third quarter of 2012 and
the remaining two blocks in the first quarter of 2013.
The financing of the project was carried out at the finance of
Uzbekneftegaz.
The project will enable to insure a reliable work of the installed
capacities in purification of the natural gas from hydrogen sulfide
and sour gas in the long-term perspective, as well as compensate
the volume of natural gas processing to the GEA.
The blocks of the new stage will also allow to solve the gas
processing at the Hauzak-Shady site in Bukhara region, which is
operated by LUKOIL JSC within PSA with Uzbekistan.
The Russian company commissioned the Hauzak-Shady gas field in
2007, within the Kandym-Khauzak-Shady-Kungrad PSA. The production
rate in this field amounted to about 4 billion cubic meters at the
end of 2012.
The Mubarek Gas Processing Plant was commissioned in 1971. The
production capacity of the plant reaches nearly 30 billion cubic
meters of natural gas and the production capacity exceeds 570,000
gas condensate per year.