Uzbekistan will offer 50 mining and prospective fields to foreign and domestic investors this year “on the basis of open and transparent market mechanisms” in an effort to identify the country’s mineral reserves and raise mining production.

Azerbaijan halted natural gas supplies to Turkey from the Shah Deniz I offshore field.

Maintenance works are planned to be held on a major Tengiz oil field in Kazakhstan in August-September, the country’s Energy Ministry spokesman told The Tribune.