No.4(44),2025 PP.83-100

Neftyanaya provintsiya No. 4(44), 2025

Rationale for searching for natural hydrogen deposits within Uzbekistan

T.Kh. Shoimurotov, O.A. Karshiev, M.T. Khannanov, S.S. Yusupkhodjaev
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25689/NP.2025.4.83-100

Abstract

The change and development of technologies in industry usually depend on the broad structural stability of the raw material base, which is clearly manifested in the consumption of primary energy sources. The energy sector is the most capital-intensive industry and determines the dynamics of changes in the technological structure of the economy. Further accelerated development of modern energy and transport based on hydrocarbon raw materials leads humanity to a large- scale ecological and energy crisis. Developed countries are making efforts to find alternative, renewable, environmentally friendly energy sources. At present , significant scientific and scientific-practical work is being carried out to transfer the world energy, and, consequently, the economy, to a new energy source, that is, environmentally friendly and renewable solar and wind energy. At the same time, certain positive results have been achieved. In addition, the problem of transferring to an unusual and safe new energy source, «green energy» - hydrogen, has arisen. In this regard, fundamental scientific research is being carried out in the leading scientific centers of the world and certain effective results are being achieved. The use of hydrogen as a primary energy source leads to the creation of a fundamentally new hydrogen economy. This, in turn, will become a scientific and technical achievement comparable in socio-economic consequences with a positive impact on the development of the energy industry.
For the first time in the practice of the State Institution «Institute of Geology and Exploration of Oil and Gas Fields», promising geological conditions within Uzbekistan, where natural hydrogen deposits are most likely to be found, have been examined.

Key words:

hydrogen, energy, anomaly, gas, fluid, carbon, hydrocarbon, deposits, zone, deposits

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Authors

T.Kh. Shoimurotov, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Chief Scientific Advisor of the State Institution "IGIRNIGM" of the Ministry of Mining Industry and Geology of the Republic of Uzbekistan
64, Olimlar St., Tashkent, 100069, Russian Federation
E- mail: igirnigm@ing.uz, tuychi@ing.uz

O.A. Karshiev, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Director, State Institution "IGIRNIGM" of the Ministry of Mining Industry and Geology of the Republic of Uzbekistan
64, Olimlar St., Tashkent, 100069, Russian Federation
Е-mail: igirnigm@ing.uz

M.T. Khannanov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Leading Expert of the Department of Geology of Oil and Gas Fields of TatNIPIneft Institute – PJSC Tatneft
75, Lenin St., Almetyevsk, 423462, Russian Federation
E-mail: khannanov@tatneft.ru

S.S. Yusupkhodjaev, Candidate of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Head of the Laboratory, IGIRNIGM State Institution of the Ministry of Mining and Geology of the Republic of Uzbekistan
64, Olimlar St., Tashkent, 100069, Russian Federation
Е-mail: igirnigm@ing.uz

For citation:

T.Kh. Shoimurotov, O.A. Karshiev, M.T. Khannanov, S.S. Yusupkhodjaev Obosnovaniye poiska zalezhey prirodnogo vodoroda v predelakh Uzbekistana [Rationale for searching for natural hydrogen deposits within Uzbekistan]. Neftyanaya Provintsiya, No. 4(44), 2025. pp. 83-100. DOI https://doi.org/10.25689/NP.2025.4.83-100. EDN IETCKE (in Russian)

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Rationale for searching for natural hydrogen deposits within Uzbekistan T.Kh. Shoimurotov, O.A. Karshiev, M.T. Khannanov, S.S. Yusupkhodjaev DOI: https://doi.org/10.25689/NP.2025.4.83-100

Key words: hydrogen, energy, anomaly, gas, fluid, carbon, hydrocarbon, deposits, zone, deposits

Rationale for searching for natural hydrogen deposits within Uzbekistan

T.Kh. Shoimurotov, O.A. Karshiev, M.T. Khannanov, S.S. Yusupkhodjaev
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25689/NP.2025.4.83-100

Key words:

hydrogen, energy, anomaly, gas, fluid, carbon, hydrocarbon, deposits, zone, deposits