Gazprom zarubezhneftegaz has completed facilities provision and road reconstruction work in the Shakhrinavsky district

The road, which connects the village of Bolshevik in the Shakhrinavsky district with the drilling site, is 15 kilometres long.
The reconstruction was made up of a complete range of engineering and technical tasks: engineering, earth works for creating the essential profile of the road, filling the road with a sand-gravel mixture and shaping the road bed, constructing small man-made works (passages through the ravine at a depth of up to 15 metres), constructing ditches, the installation of road signs and so on.
The access road through the difficult geological mining conditions of the locality allows unimpeded access to the well for passenger vehicles as well as specialised vehicles with heavy machinery.
From 25 September to 4 October this year, the mobilisation of heavy machinery and materials of an overall mass of more than 370 tonnes took place along the road from the villages of Bolshevik and Kyzylbulok to the Shakhrinav-1P well.
The commissioning of the access road allows people living next to the road in the kishlaks (Central Asian villages) of Kyzylbulok, Sarikamysh, Dolon and others free access to the main transportation communications in the region for 12 months of the year.
The Bolshevik-Kyzylbulok - Shakhrinav-P1 well road reconstruction project was designed by the Research and Project Institute, a Tajiki unitary state enterprise.
Gazprom zarubezhneftegaz (a 100%-owned subsidiary of Gazprom) is undertaking the hydrocarbon exploration and prospecting project in Tajikistan.
The Sarikamysh field is estimated to have the best prospects from all of Gazprom's four licensed areas. The operator intends to start drilling the first exploratory well at the beginning of December this year.
Shakhrinav 1-P, located in the Sarikamysh area, is the deepest well in the Republic of Tajikistan. It is 6,300 metres deep.