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Survey of Energy Resources 2007
Crude Oil and Natural Gas Liquids Country Notes
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Proved recoverable reserves (crude oil and NGLs, million tonnes) |
70 |
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Production (crude oil and NGLs, million tonnes, 2005) |
5.5 |
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R/P ratio (years) |
12.8 |
Although an oil producer for more than a century, large-scale developments in the republic mostly date from after 1950. The current assessment published by Oil & Gas Journal shows proved reserves as 594 million barrels, a level unchanged since 1996. Oil fields discovered so far are located in the south-west of the country (Amu-Darya Basin) and in the Tadzhik-Fergana Basin in the east.
Total oil output (including NGLs) followed a rising trend for about 10 years from 1988, since when the trend has been moderately negative, more sharply so in 2004 and 2005. All of Uzbekistan's production of crude and condensate is processed in domestic refineries or used directly as feedstock for petrochemicals.