Bakhodir Sidiqov has been appointed Chairman of Uzbekneftegaz to replace Mehriddin Abdullayev, the Telegram channel of Yangi Uzbekiston newspaper under the Cabinet of Ministers reported.
Prior to his appointment, he had served as the chief of the project office for the “Development of the Yoshlik I Field Project of Almalyk mining and Metallurgical Plant, as well as the deputy chairman of Uzbekneftegaz in charge of geology.
The new role of Mehriddin Abdullayev, who had been in charge of the company since January 2020, is not yet known.
Bakhodir Sidiqov had been in charge of Uzbekneftegaz from February 2019 to January 2020.
In early February, he was part of the Uzbek delegation at a meeting of the energy ministers of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan with the head of the Russian company Gazprom in St. Petersburg.
Previous roles of Bakhodir Sidiqov:
- 1999−2000 — technician at JSC UzLITIneftegaz design institute;
- 2001−2004 — design engineer, junior researcher at UzLITIneftegaz;
- 2004−2006 — engineer and acting head of department at UzLITIneftegaz;
- 2006-2007 - Head of the Department for the evaluation of feasibility studies of projects of the State Design Institute Uzog’irneftegazkimyoloyiha;
- 2007−2009 — Head of Department for Development of Fuel and Energy Complex of Ministry of Economy;
- 2009-2010 - Director of Neftegazinvest under Uzbekneftegaz;
- 2010-2011 - Deputy Director for Corporate Affairs of Uzbekistan GTL;
- 2011-2012 - Director for Corporate Affairs of Uzbekistan GTL;
- 2012-2016 - CFO at Uzbekistan GTL;
- 2016-2017 - Head of the Main Department of Forecasting, Resources and Investment Programs of Uzbekneftegaz/Director of Neftegazinvest;
- 2017-2017 - Head of the Department for Prospective Development and Investments of Uzbekneftegaz/ Director of Neftegazinvest;
- 2017-2018 - Deputy Chairman of Prospective Development and Investments of Uzbekneftegaz;
- 2018-2019 - Head of the Information and Analytical Department for Geology, Fuel and Energy Complex, Chemical, Petrochemical and Metallurgical Industry of the Cabinet of Ministers.
