Turkmenistan increases gas production
Turkmenistan increased gas production 10.4 % year-on-year to amount to 30.8 bn cm in the first half of 2002, with oil
production up 9.3 % to 4.7 mm tons, a source in the republic's Ministry for Oil, Gas and Mineral Resources
told.
Exports of natural gas were up 9 % to 22.2 bn cm. Production of liquefied gas increased 12 % to 109,900 tons.
Throughput at Turkmenbashi and Seidinsky oil refineries, which are structural subdivisions of Turkmenneftegaz,
amounted to 3.2 mm tons of oil, up 20 % year-on-year.
Production of polypropylene increased 48 %, while diesel production was up 37 % and gasoline 21 %.
As reported earlier, Turkmenistan plans to increase gas production 26 % year-on-year to amount to 67.58 bn cm of
natural and associated gas in 2003. It is also planned to significantly increase oil production -- 50 % to 13.5 mm
tons.
Oil production in Turkmenistan in the first quarter 2003 increased 12 % year-on-year to 2.3 mm tons, with natural gas
production up 10 % to 18.3 bn cm.
