By OGJ editors
HOUSTON, Mar. 16 -- Oxiana Energy Inc., Princeton, NJ, has disclosed the completion last May of a 3,000 b/d topping plant at Angot oil field, in the Sar-i-Pol province of northern Afghanistan (see map, Aug. 9, 2004, p. 32).
Oxiana said reengineering and reconstruction of the plant began in 2002. It owns the facility with local partner Shamal Inter Neft, which began the project in the early 1990s.
Oxiana said it is awaiting permission under a new Afghan hydrocarbon law to participate in the rehabilitation and development of nearby oil fields, which will provide feedstock for the plant.
When the former Soviet Union controlled Afghan oil and gas operations, crude from Angot field was processed at a topping plant at Sheberghan for use in central heating boilers in area cites. The plant was destroyed by war.
Privately held Oxiana concentrates on the Amu Darya River Basin of Central Asia and has a regional office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
