Russia's Lukoil increases gas production at West Gissar in Uzbekistan
MOSCOW, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Russian energy major Lukoil said on Tuesday it had launched main production and processing facilities at its South-West Gissar project in Uzbekistan, allowing to increase gas production.
The facilities include a gas treatment plant with an annual capacity of 4.4 billion cubic metres (bcm), a gas pre-treatment unit and four gas-gathering stations, the company said.
"As a result, gas production at the Gissar fields cluster reached planned production level of 14 million cubic metres a day, or 5 bcm per year," it said.
(Writing by Dmitry Solovyov; editing by Katya Golubkova)