Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Gas production in Uzbekistan amounted to 16.26 billion cubic meters in January-April 2023, which is 9.5% less than in the same period of last year, according to the data of the Agency of Statistics of Uzbekistan.

In January, 4.31 billion cubic meters of gas (-7.5%) were produced, in February - 3.85 billion (-9%), in March - 4.16 billion (-12.96%), and in April - 3.94 billion (-8.1%).

At the same time, the agency revised the volume of gas production for January-April 2022. According to the agency, in January-April 2022, Uzbekistan produced 17.96 billion cubic meters of gas, and not 18.01 billion.

Electricity production in the first four months decreased by 4% or 993.5 million kWh compared to the same period of last year, to 23.99 billion kWh.

April saw a 5.4% increase in generation after falling electricity production in January (-2%), February (2.3%) and March (-1.7%).

The production of thermal energy in January-April decreased by 11.6% (in April there was an increase of 27.6%), gas condensate - by 7.7%. Oil production increased by 4.3%, but in April there was a slight decrease (2.8%).

Coal production in April increased by 9.7%, but since the beginning of the year in total volume has decreased from 1.59 million to 1.47 million tons (-7.4%).

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a meeting on 11 May noted that the demand for coal will increase by 1.5 times and set the task of increasing production by 22.6% - up to 6.5 million tons.