KABUL (SW) – The revenue from oil deposits in the Sar-e-Pul province touched AFN 2.5 billion last year, confirmed an official.
Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, the head of Afghan Gas Company in Jawzjan, has said that this company earned two billion and 500 million afghanis from the Qashgari oil fields in Sar-e-Pul and 875 million afghanis from the Jawzjan gas mine fields.
According to him, more than 47 million tons of crude oil were extracted and distributed to companies from the Qashgari field.
Rozi Sadid, technical deputy director at the Afghan Gas Jowzjan, has said that 650,000 cubic meters of gas is extracted from the active gas wells of this province in one day, of which 250,000 cubic meters are used to produce electricity by the Bayat Power, and 350,000 cubic meters by Mazar-e-Sharif Electricity Code while the rest is distributed to residential houses and work guilds.
At the moment, 22 gas wells are active in Jawzjan and 900 people are engaged in their extraction.
Afghanistan still meets a large part of its need for oil and liquid gas through imports.
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