DUSHANBE, November 12, 2009, Asia-Plus // -- Tajikistan has extracted only some 20,000 tons of oil in January-September 2009, which is 297 tons fewer than in the same period of last year, a report by the Ministry of Finance on financial and economic activities of the country’s enterprises over the report said.

Over the same nine-month period, Tajikistan has produced 13.4 million cubic meters of natural gas, which is 1,4 million cubic meters more than over the report of last year but only 82.5 percent of this year’s target.

The reports says that there are 160 oil-and-gas deposits in Tajikistan ; 150 of them are the oil deposits and 11 others are the gas deposits.