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Mongolia to build Erdeneburen
hydropower plant
MONGOLIA MONGOLIA’S Minister of Energy Tavinbekh months.
Nansal presented the planned development of The western region, home to around 390,000
the Erdeneburen hydropower plant project dur- people, imports 75% of its energy needs from
ing a regular meeting of the Mongolian cabinet, Russia and China, meaning it consumes energy
Montsame has reported. that is five or six times as expensive as that pro-
The Ministry of Energy signed a turnkey con- duced by Durgun HPP. The development of
tract with the project’s contractor in September the hydropower project will enable the coun-
to ensure the 90 MW hydropower plant is con- try’s western area to receive energy produced
structed on time. The construction will begin on domestically.
April 1 with a tartgeted completion period of 61
TMK to kick off drilling at
Mongolian CBM project
MONGOLIA SYDNEY-LISTED TMK Energy, formerly groups, with historical CBM data acquired
Tamaska Oil and Gas, plans to begin drilling at from five wells indicating high gas contents. The
the Gurvantes XXXV coalbed methane (CBM) drilling programme was reported to have been
project in Mongolia’s South Gobi basin within a designed to intersect these thick seams at suita-
week, Natural Gas World reported on March 9. ble depths for gas development.
“The initial drilling programme is sched- The project covers an area of 8,400 square
uled to commence within the next week and kilometres. It is situated in proximity to the
will comprise of at least four full tested cored northern China gas transmission and distribu-
holes within the western portion of the Gur- tion network.
vantes XXXV license in an area known as Nariin TMK last month completed the acquisition
Sukhait,” TMK was cited as saying. of Telmen Energy, which held 100% of the pro-
The Nariin Sukhait area is reportedly known ject.
to contain two thick, high-quality, coal seam
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