May 2023: Condor Energies signed an HoA with the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Mining Industry and Geology and JSC Uzbekneftegaz for an investment project to assume operationsof 8 existing gas-condensate fields along with 2 exploration blocks in the surrounding area. Condor will implement a field refurbishment, infill drilling and emissions-intensity reduction plan.
2022
Jun 2022: Sanoat Energetika Guruhi (SEG) with Kontiki-Exploration discovered the Yangi Uzbekistan field in the Zerafshan depression. It is believed to be the largest ultra-viscous oil and bitumen field in the country reported at 733 mm bbls.
2021
No significant news in 2021.
2020
No significant news in 2020.
2019
No significant news in 2019.
2018
Apr 2018: Lukoil officially opened a gas processing complex including 77 drilled wells and a gas gathering facility at the Kandym fields cluster. The complex was completed 8 months ahead of schedule, converting gas to sales gas, condensate and sulphur.
2017
Aug 2017: Lukoil (operator, 100%) launched the main production and process facilities at the Gissar fields. Production has reached planned levels of 5 bcm a year from 37 wells. The license area includes 7 fields.
2016
Nov 2016: Lukoil has financed development of the Gissar gas condensate fields The PSA on the Gissar project was signed in January 2007 and the first fields (Djarkuduk-Yangi Kyzylcha) came onstream in December 2011. The Block reached its target production level of 1.1 bcm of gas per year in 2012. In 2017 the Djarkuduk complex gas treatment unit will come onstream.
2015
Sep 2015: Lukoil has produced 30 bcm of cumulative gas with 25 bcm from the Khauzak-Shady project in Bukhara since 2007. The remainder has come from the Gissar project since 2011.
Sep 2015: Korea Gas (KOGAS) advised that production will begin soon at its Surgil gas field project and related petrochemical complex. Around 4.5 bcm of gas, will be produced each year.
May 2015: Lukoil and Uzbekneftegaz has have begun production tests of two Gas Treatment Plants (GTPs) at the Northern Shady Site and the Kuvachi-Alat Field in the Bukhara Region as part of the Kandym Early Gas Project. The GTPs will process natural gas from 34 wells to supply the Mubarek Gas Processing Plant.
2014
No significant news in 2014.
2013
Sep 2013: Tethys has received approval for the Production Enhancement Contract (PEC) for the Chegara Group of oil fields in the southern Bukhara-Khiva region. The agreement is between JSC Uzneftegazdobycha, JSC Uznefteproduct and Chegara Production, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tethys. Work is planned to begin before the end of 2013.
2012
Sep 2012: Lukoil made a gas/condensate discovery in the Shurdarye prospect in the South West Gissar block in Upper Jurassic carbonates. It flowed 650,000 cm of gas and 553 bbls of condensate per day. Gas came onstream from the Dzharkuduk-Yangi-Kyzylcha field in 2011 and a new processing facility at Dzharkuduk will enable the Adamstash and Gumbulak gas fields to be brought online.