Lukoil to invest $5bn in Uzbekistan: Vladimir Putin this week pledged that, by 2039, Russia’s largest private-sector oil company Lukoil will have invested $5bn developing gas and condensate fields in Uzbekistan’s Bukhara province. “It is planned to complete the implementation of the project by 2039,” he said during extended discussions in Tashkent. A gas processing complex with the capacity of 8bn m³ would also be built, he added. TREND