Uzbekistan Will Pump More Gas But Keep Most of It at Home
- Output is set to grow more than 20% by the end of the decade
- Country to prioritize domestic consumer needs: deputy minister
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Uzbekistan plans to increase natural gas production more than 20% by the end of the decade, but will keep most of the extra output at home even as Europe clamors for supply.
Gas production will rise to 66.1 billion cubic meters in 2030 from 53.6 billion cubic meters last year, First Deputy Energy Minister Azim Akhmedkhadzhaev said by email. Uzbekistan, one of the top three producers in the former Soviet Union and previously a supplier to China, Russia and several of its neighbors, stopped exporting the fuel this year amid a surge in local consumption.