Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Feb. 27 / Trend D.Azizov /
Uzbekneftegaz National Holding Company will direct $82 million in 2012 for the project to modernize KS-2 and KS-3 compressor stations, located on the "Central Asia - Center" gas-transport system, the Uztransgaz joint-stock company, structural unit of Uzbekneftegaz, which controls the activity of transporting and supplying gas said.
According to the feasibility study, within two years - until 2014 at each of the compressor stations two turbine units on electricity capacity of 25 MW will be mounted. This will allow to produce up to 212 MWh of electricity in off-line mode, and halve dependency of compressor stations on the supply network of electricity. In addition, reliability of the pumping of volume of natural gas in winter to consumers of Tashkent region and the Ferghana Valley will be increased. Tender for the supply of equipment is to be announced in the first half of 2012.
Uzbekneftegaz plans to finance the project worth $82 million due to its own funds.
To date the total length of gas pipelines in Uzbekistan in terms of one line is more than 14,000 kilometers. Uztransgaz exploits 24 compressor stations and over 300 gas distribution stations.
Some sections of powerful gas-transport systems of "Central Asia - Center" and "Bukhara-Ural" designed for transit and export supplies of natural gas have been laid in the north-western Uzbekistan. The first branch of the "Central Asia - Uzbekistan" pipeline with a total length of about 7,000 kilometers with diameter of 1,067 mm and a capacity of 40 billion cubic meters of gas per year was commissioned in Dec, 2009. Some 188 km of gas pipeline was laid through Turkmenistan, 530 km - Uzbekistan, 1293 kilometers - Kazakhstan and over 4,860 kilometers in China to Guangzhou.