Russian’s OAO Lukoil has started production tests of two gas treatment plants at the Northern Shady site and Kuvachi-Alat field in Uzbekistan’s Bukhara region as part of the Kandym early gas project (KEGP), which is being implemented together with state holding company Uzbekneftegaz.
Earlier this year Lukoil let a contract for construction of the plants (OGJ Online, Feb. 13, 2015).
The treatment plants have a combined capacity of 2.2 billion cu m/year and will process gas from 34 wells to supply the Mubarek gas processing plant. Launching the new facilities will allow Lukoil to significantly increase its gas production in Uzbekistan, the company said.
More than 170 km of power lines, an electric substation, more than 180 km of high- and medium-pressure pipelines, 237 km of fiber optic lines, 150 km of roads, and 7 bridges have been built under the KEGP.
KEGP is the initial stage of the large-scale Kandym group of fields surface facilities construction project under the Kandym-Khauzak-Shady-Kungrad production-sharing agreement. The Kandym group consists of six gas condensate fields: Kandym, Kuvachi-Alat, Akkum, Parsankul, Khoji, and West Khoji. The Northern Shady site (Dengizkul field) lies within the Khauzak-Shady project area, but its surface facilities are being constructed as part of KEGP.