17 December 2019, Epsilon Development Company has announced a gas discovery with well Hatar Sharkiy 1 in the Amu-Darya Basin. The well is located north of the Kumli gas field, very close to the border of Lukoil's Kandym block. Epsilon provides no technical details, it only says that the flow rate "has increased from 0 to 80,000 cu m/day (2.74 MMscf/d)", which may indicate a re-entry rather than a newly drilled well. In the past, Uzbekneftegaz drilled wells in the Hatar area (Hatar 1 and 2), but both had been unsuccessful.  The new discovery's reservoir is most likely associated with the Callovian-Oxfordian carbonates, the main prospective play in the Amu-Darya Basin. Kumli field's Callovian-Oxfordian reservoir occurs at a depth of 1,958 m.
17 December 2019, Epsilon Development Company has announced a gas discovery with well Hatar Sharkiy 1 in the Amu-Darya Basin. The well is located north of the Kumli gas field, very close to the border of Lukoil's Kandym block. Epsilon provides no technical details, it only says that the flow rate "has increased from 0 to 80,000 cu m/day (2.74 MMscf/d)", which may indicate a re-entry rather than a newly drilled well. In the past, Uzbekneftegaz drilled wells in the Hatar area (Hatar 1 and 2), but both had been unsuccessful. The new discovery's reservoir is most likely associated with the Callovian-Oxfordian carbonates, the main prospective play in the Amu-Darya Basin. Kumli field's Callovian-Oxfordian reservoir occurs at a depth of 1,958 m.