(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 28
By Fakhri Vakilov-Trend:
Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan and the international oilfield services company Eriell Group organized a press tour for foreign and national media to familiarize them with the petrochemical and electricity industries in Uzbekistan,Trendreports citing the Ministry of Energy of Uzbekistan.
The international media outlets were represented by Chatham House, Argus Media, Nuclear Intelligence, Energy Intelligence, Upstream, World Nuclear News, IntelliNews and Trend news Agency, read the message.
The media representatives visited the Surgil gas field and the Ustursky gas-chemical complex of Uz-Kor-Gaz LLC Chemical for the first time. The journalists were able to see the gas field, the process of its production, collection, distribution and processing. They also got acquainted with the gas-chemical complex located in the northwestern part of Uzbekistan, in the southern part of the Ustyurt plateau (Karakalpakstan).
The Surgil gas field was first put into operation in 1998, exploration and drilling of wells were carried out by enterprises of Uzbekneftegaz JSC. In 2006, a memorandum on the comprehensive development of the Surgil field was signed between JSC Uzbekneftegaz and the Korea Gas Corporation.
In 2013, the active phase of the construction of the Uzbek-Korean joint venture Uz-Kor Gas Chemical began, the complex was built in three years, three months ahead of schedule.
During the drilling period from 2013 to 2015, 35 wells were mastered. In the period from 2016 to the present, another 50 wells have been mastered, read the message.
The length of one well is 2950 meters. Work to this day is carried out day and night without stopping.
Since September 2015, all products coming from gas wells have been supplied to the Ustyurt Gas Chemical Complex, which was built by Uzbekneftegaz JSC and Uz-Kor Gas Chemical JV LLC.
This complex consists of five plants: a gas separation plant; ethylene plant; polyethylene plant; polypropylene plant; energy supply plant. The main equipment is manufactured by leading German, French, Japanese, American, Swedish, Dutch and Korean manufacturers.
The indicators of the production capacity of the enterprise per year are as follows: annual production and transportation of more than three billion cubic meters of natural gas from the Surgil field; annual production, preliminary preparation and transportation of more than 115,000 tons of gas condensate from the Surgil field; deep processing with the extraction of valuable components at the Ustyurt Gas Chemical Complex.
The total annual production capacity of the complex is: 387,000 tons of polyethylene; 83,000 tons of polypropylene; 102,000 tons of pyrolysis distillate; 8,000 tons of pyrolysis oil (which is sent to the Bukhara oil refinery for further processing and production).
Today, the polymer products produced are sold for export to the countries of Central and East Asia, the CIS and Europe, as well as are supplied to the domestic market through the trading platform of the Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Uzbekistan (UZEX), read the message.
As for the socio-economic benefits, more than 1,480 jobs were created, as well as the creation of indirect employment in the corresponding support services.
Due to vigorous successful activity over many years, the availability of qualified personnel and infrastructure, in 2012 Ustyurt Gas Chemical Complex was recognized as the best project and financial agreement in the petrochemical and gas chemical sectors by the international publication Project Finance International.
The complex was awarded the International Best Deal of 2012 Prizes by Trade Finance Magazine and Global Trade Review. In 2014, the project was awarded the prize 'Global deal of 2014 in the oil and gas sector' by the "Infrastucture Journal' international publication.
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