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The company currently is preparing a project on construction of two facilities on extracting and processing low-pressure gas at three used fields in Kashkadarya region of Uzbekistan, RIA Novosti reported.
Their total capacity will make up about 200 million cubic meters a year. It is planned to produce 20,000 tonnes of LNG a year. The project will be implemented in 2014-2016. The project will be financed due to own resources of Uzbekneftegaz.
According to Uzbekneftegaz, currently Uzbekistan has over 50 used low-pressure gas fields with reserves about 60 billion cubic meters.
The capacities of Uzbekneftegaz allow to produce about 70 billion cubic meters of gas a year. Uzbekistan decreased gas production by 0.2% to 62.911 billion cubic meters.