Gökdepe District
Gökdepe District is a district of Ahal Region, Turkmenistan.
Administrative Subdivisions
- Cities
- * Gökdepe
- Towns
- * Yzgant
- Village councils
- * Ahal
- * Akgoňur
- * Babaarap
- * Derweze
- * Gorjaw
- * Hurmantgökje
- * Kelejar
- * Köpetdag
- * Owadandepe
- * Saparmyrat Nyýazow
- * Şorgala
- * Tagan Baýramdurdyýew
- * Türkmenistan
Economy
Agriculture, food, and feed
Farms in the district produce wheat and cotton. Cotton seed is crushed for extraction of oil and meal at the Ahal Vegetable Oil Enterprise plant near Ovadandepe. It was opened on 17 May 2010 with a design capacity to process 96,000 tons of cotton seed per year, with daily production of 50 tons of cottonseed oil, 10 tons of margarine, and 140 tons of cottonseed meal and 70 tons of soybean hulls.Industry
On June 28, 2019, a $1.7 billion factory for producing gasoline out of natural gas was commissioned in Ovadandepe, Gökdepe District. Built by Rönesans and Kawasaki using technology from Haldor Topsoe, the factory has a design capacity of 600,000 tonnes of gasoline, 12,000 tonnes of Diesel fuel, and 115,000 tonnes of liquefied petroleum gas per year, produced from 1.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas.In 2019, Turkmenistan produced 5.1 million standard square meters of sheet glass, all of it in Ahal. A$375 million float glass and glass container plant built by Tepe Inşaat of Turkey was opened February 14, 2018, in Ovadandepe north of Ashgabat. It replaced a Soviet-era glass factory located in central Ashgabat. In 2019, the value of Turkmenistan's glass exports as reported by trading partners was $9.5 million.
A steel smelter, Türkmen Demir Önümleri Döwlet Kärhanasy, operating on scrap metal is located at kilometer 22 on the Ashgabat-Dashoguz Automobile Highway near Ovadandepe. It produces mainly rebar and channel iron.
The Derweze State Electrical Power Station, a 504.4 megawatt power plant built by Çalık Enerji in 2015, is located near Ovadandepe.