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On 23-24 August, the Ministry of Energy and LUKOIL organized a press tour to the Gissar group of fields located in Dehkanabad districts of Kashkadarya region for representatives of the media.

The Production Sharing Agreement for fields in South-West Gissar and the Ustyurt Region of the Republic of Uzbekistan was signed between the Republic of Uzbekistan and LUKOIL in 2007. In March 2008, LUKOIL entered the South-West Gissar project and started developing the Gissar group of fields in Kashkadarya region.

The contract area of LUKOIL’s Gissar project includes 7 fields in the Kashkadarya region.

As part of the project, 300 km of high-voltage transmission lines, two power substations, 126 km of access roads were also built. At the project facilities, 64 thousand cubic meters of concrete were poured, about 12 thousand tons of metal structures and more than 4 thousand tons of equipment were installed, 286 km of linear pipelines were built.