Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Usually, in the process of oil production, associated gas comes to the surface along with this product. Since this low-pressure gas, released together with oil to the surface of the Earth, until 2005 was completely burned without any effective use. This also led to the pollution of the atmosphere with harmful emissions.

One of the urgent problems was the prevention of the negative impact of pollutant emissions on the environment, as well as the rational use of flared associated petroleum gas. In order to eliminate this problem, an investment project “Utilization of associated gas produced from the Kukdumalok field” was developed.

The main part of oil and gas condensate was produced from the Kukdumalok field, which was discovered in 1985 in \ Kashkadarya region, and therefore the project is planned to be implemented in this field.

The project will be included in the investment program of the Republic of Uzbekistan, approved by the decree of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan from 30 November 2004 No. PP-560.

Thus, on 14 September 2005, a joint venture LLC "KO ‘KDUMALOQ-GAZ" (Uzbekistan-Sweden-Great Britain) was established.

During 2005-2011, the joint venture for the processing of associated and low pressure gases at the Kukdumalok field built and commissioned the 1st, 2nd, 3rd stages of the compressor station, and was used by the specialists of the joint venture until 2013.

Since 2011, the joint venture has developed a project for the Utilization of Low Pressure Gas from the South Kemachi, Kruk, West Kruk, Umid and North Urtabulak fields. On 6 October 2014, the project was approved by the Resolution of the Republic of Uzbekistan No. PP-740. On April 1, 2017, as a result of the project, the Yuzhny Kemachi compressor station was launched. The station’s annual capacity is designed to process 858 million cubic meters of low pressure gas.

Based on the agreement concluded with Uzbekneftegaz and KO’KDUMALOQ-GAZ on31 October 2019, the joint venture provides an additional service for processing 2.12 million cubic meters of medium pressure gas per day.

Currently, qualified specialists of the joint venture have carried out large-scale work to prepare technological units for the autumn-winter season 2020/2021.

In January-September 2020, the planned targets set by the enterprise were fulfilled by 105.7% and production of 578.5 million cubic meters of natural gas was achieved.