Info about preliminary date for start of Russian gas transit to Uzbekistan provided

Gas transit to Uzbekistan is planned to start from October this year. This became known during a working trip of the Chairman of the Board of QazaqGaz Sanjar Jarkeshov to the Atyrau region, where he visited new projects for the modernization of the country’s gas transportation system.

The head of the company inspected the progress of preparatory work on the Kazakh section of the main gas pipeline “Central Asia – Center” for the transportation of Russian gas to Uzbekistan through the territory of Kazakhstan.

“All technical activities are carried out by QazaqGaz in full according to the approved schedule. To date, a number of repair and restoration activities have been completed: repair and restoration work on section No. 14 in the Mangistau region was completed ahead of schedule and in full. Passage pressure tests have been successfully carried out; at the stage of completion of repair and restoration work on site No. 1 in the West Kazakhstan region; repair and restoration work is being actively carried out at sections No.2 – No.13 in the Atyrau region,” the report reads.

It also became known that gas transit to Uzbekistan is planned to begin in October 2023.

It should be recalled that in June this year, QazaqGaz and Gazprom signed an agreement on gas transportation to Uzbekistan.

Earlier, it was reported that at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum an agreement was signed on the supply of Russian gas to Uzbekistan, as well as a “roadmap” for preparing the republic’s gas transportation system and preparing for transportation.

The documents were signed by the Minister of Energy of Uzbekistan, Jurabek Mirzamakhmudov, and the Chairman of the Management Board of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, with the participation of Deputy PM Jamshid Khodjayev. Then it became known that the export of Russian gas to Uzbekistan through the territory of Kazakhstan will begin in the 4th quarter of this year.

Later, Jurabek Mirzamakhmudov said that he could not disclose the cost of gas that Uzbekistan would buy from Russia.