DUSHANBE, September 18, 2013, Asia-Plus — On Wednesday September 18, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon met here with Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Board of Russia’s Open Joint Stock Company Gazprom.
According to the Tajik president’s official website, issues related to exploration and development of natural-gas fields in four regions of Tajikistan were a major topic of the meeting.
The sides reportedly noted with satisfaction that Gazprom International, an affiliate of Gazprom, had completed the drilling of the Shahrinva-1P wildcat well at the Sariqamish field, Shahrinav district in central Tajikistan (some 36 kilometers southwest of Dushanbe), reaching the target well depth of 6,450 meters.
Tajik president pointed to the necessity of intensifying exploration operations at the Western Shohambari, Rengan (Roudaki district) and Sargazon (Danghara district) gas fields.
We will recall that cooperation between the Tajik government and Russia’s state-controlled company Gazprom is regulated by a long-term (till 2028) agreement on strategic cooperation in the gas industry signed between Gazprom and Tajikistan’s Ministry of Energy in Dushanbe on May 15, 2003 and a memorandum of intent on launching joint Tajik-Russian enterprises of March 28, 2006. Gazprom has been working in Tajikistan on providing the beginning of geological explorations since July 2006.
According to expert estimates, the aggregate raw-materials resources of the oil and gas bearing areas in Tajikistan amount to about 1,000 billion tons of reference fuel. At the same time, production work at oil and gas fields require considerable expenditure, since hydrocarbon deposits occur at depths ranging from 6.5 to 8 kilometers.
