Uzbek President Islam Karimov and Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip considered issues of cooperation of two states in processing oil share during their meeting. It was also discussed at the business forum of entrepreneurs of Uzbekistan and Estonia.

Andrus Ansip stated that Estonia has great experience in processing oil shale. He said that Estonia receives energy and oil from shale for about 90 years. He said that there is all opportunities to use Estonian experience in Uzbekistan. Estonian Prime Minister expressed readiness to develop cooperation with Uzbekistan in this sphere.

Chairperson of the Board of Eesti Energia (Estonia) Sandor Liive said that the company produces synthetic oil from oil shale. He said that Uzbekistan has large shale reserves and the company plans to set long-term cooperation in this direction.

International experience of processing oil shale (Sweden, Poland, Bulgaria, China and other) confirms their suitability as an alternative source of hydrocarbons. The perspective reserves of oil shales in Uzbekistan have been estimated at the volume of 47 billion tonnes.

The Institute of common and non-organic chemistry of Uzbekistan Science Academy managed to produce fractional distillation of two tar samples taken from two oil shale deposits Baysun and Sangruntau. The institute developed mass balance of the diesel fraction extracted from the tar, which show that the yield of diesel fraction of the oil shale tar is 30% for Sangruntau and 22% for Baysun.

Given that the yield from pyrolysis reaction of oil shale is 10-12%, the 100 kg of oil shale deposit Baysun can make 2.2% of the diesel fraction, and Sangruntau - 3.3%. The institute also identified presence of small quantities of rare-earth, rare, non-ferrous and precious metals in solutions of sulfuric and leaching after shale processing.

Uzbekistan plans to organize production of complex processing of oil share on the base of Sangruntau deposit in Navoi region with the cost of US$150 million. According to preliminary date, the processing complex will produce 300,000 tonnes of oil products and 500,000 tonnes of aromatic hydrocarbons a year.