Project Profile
Petroleum basin: Ustyurt
Start-up Year: 2011 (Dzharkuduk)
Gas production: 5 bcm per year (plateau rate expected in 2020)
Proven reserves: 270 million boe (Lukoil; December 31 2016)
Lukoil’s Southwest Gissar project is set to become one of the biggest sources of gas production in Uzbekistan. It contains the Dzharkuduk, Gumbulak, Amanata, Pachkamar and Adamtash gas fields along with the Southern Kyzylbayrak and Koshkuduk oil deposits.
Lukoil signed a 36-year PSA with the Uzbek government for subsoil rights to the Southwest Gissar block in 2007. Gas production started in late 2011 at the Dzharkuduk deposit, which yielded 1.1 bcm in the following year. The two largest gas fields, Adamtash and Gumbulak, were launched in 2017. Output at Southwest Gissar is expected to reach a plateau rate of 5 bcm per year in 2020, up from 1.7 bcm in 2016.
Operators:
Lukoil (Russia) with 100% interest
Contractors:
KNM Group Bhd (Malaysia): Develop gas condensate fields
Toyo Engineering Corporation (Japan): Design the site and supply technical equipment