DUSHANBE, July 22, 2015, Asia-Plus -- Kyrgyz media outlet reports that Tajikistan has handed over 14 gas wells to Kyrgyzstan.

Deputy director of Kyrgyzstan’s Agency for Geology and Mineral Resources, Alanbek Ryskulov, told Kyrgyz media outlets on July 21 that Tajikistan has handed over 14 gas wells to Kyrgyzstan during delimitation of disputable stretches of Tajik-Kyrgyz border.

“During the delimitation process, the gas wells that are located in Kyrgyz territory but had been operated by Tajik companies were transferred to the possession of the Kyrgyz government,” Ryskulov was quoted as saying by Kyrgyz media outlets.

A special commission has reportedly been set up to examine the gas wells.  “All of those 14 gas wells had been drilled in the Soviet time, and as it turned out, the majority of them are abandoned,” Kyrgyz official noted.