15 May 2019, Tatneft (Russia) has signed two agreements with the Uzbekneftegaz national oil company (UNG). The first contract concerns the XLVII Tashkent Block. Tatneft will invest its own funds into gathering seismic data and drilling exploration wells in the block. In the case of a commercial discovery, Tatneft will have the priority right to sign a production sharing contract for the block or negotiate a joint venture agreement with UNG to continue with the project.  The second contract covers three mature oil fields in the Fergana Basin: Andizhan, Palvantash and Palvantash Garbiy (Palvantash West). Tatneft will utilise proprietary technologies to initiate enhanced oil recovery at these fields. No further details of the new contracts have been publicised.  Around two thirds of the XLVII Tashkent Block fall within the Syr-Darya Basin, while the other third is in a non-prospective territory separating this basin from the prolific Amu-Darya and Afghan-Tajik basins to the south. Currently there are no discoveries in this block, nor in the Syr-Darya Basin as a whole. Very few exploration wells have so far been drilled in the block.  The Andizhan (discovered in 1937), Palvantash (1942) and Palvantash Garbiy (1955) fields are small and very mature fields. Tatneft specialises in mature field development as well as in production of heavy oil/bitumen in its home country of Tatarstan in central Russia.
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