Epsilon Development Company has made a new gas discovery in its Mubarek investment block in the Amu-Darya Basin. Well Beshkent Shimoliy 1 has tested 200,000 (6.85 MMscf/d) cu m/d gas and 20 t of oil (ca. 150 b/d) in an open hole test. The new discovery's reserves are estimated at 4 Bcm of gas and 300,000 t of oil (137 Bcf and 2.3 MMb). It is assumed that the hydrocarbons have been tested from the Callovian-Oxfordian carbonates.  The Beshkent Shimoliy discovery is situated north-east of the Beshkent gas-condensate and oil field. It was discovered in 1974. The field has one reservoir in Callovian-Oxfordian carbonates at a depth of 3,090 m, and its initial recoverable 2P reserves stood at 1.17 Tcf of gas and 46.4 MMb of liquid hydrocarbons.
Beshkent Shimoliy 1 nfw. (Epsilon Development Company 100%) E of Beshkent o/g/c field in XX Kultak-Kamashi block, tested 6.85 MMcfg/d + ab. 150 bo/d presumably from Callovian-Oxfordian carbs, reserves estimated 137 Bcfg + 2.3 MMbo.