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Turkmenistan is reportedly gearing up to sign a natural gas agreement with Afghanistan, Pakistan and India by the end of this month in a move that would provide the foundation for building a pipeline connecting the four countries despite major security concerns that make the Afghanistan-Pakistan part...
The sixth annual colloquium “Eurasia Pipelines: Road to Peace, Development and Interdependencies?” convened April 17 in New York, focusing this year on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, and Turkmen-China pipelines. Speakers included Amb. Karl Eikenberry, former...
Turkmenistan is set to supply 10 billion cubic metres of gas through the Trans-Caspian pipeline, Azeri Energy Minister Natig Aliyev has said. Speaking in Baku yesterday, Minister Aliyev said that negotiations were now ongoing to work out the particulars of such a deal but that the present focus was...
The Trans-Caspian Pipeline seemed to move closer to reality with talks earlier this month in Brussels among the European Union, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan, but so far there is only the semblance of momentum. As we have seen before with these negotiations for many years, the EU is over-optimistic, Azerbaijan...
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov visited Ukraine in early March, in an apparent effort to rekindle their neglected long-distance relationship. Their shared interest in reducing Russian control over their gas exports and imports has given them common ground, but the hard realities...
An important aspect of Turkmenistan's energy policy is diversifying routes of supplies of natural gas to major markets of Eurasia, where there is a steady growth in energy demand, the president of the country, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, told a recent government meeting, the Turkmen government reports...
Ukraine is interested in energy cooperation with Turkmenistan including the development of production and transportation of Turkmen gas. Speaking on the occasion of a visit by Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is on a state visit to Ukraine, Yanukovych said that Ukraine was...
Last month Turkmenistan’s autocratic President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov won a near-unanimous ‘victory’ of 97%. His opponents were state-approved factory managers and local officials – there was never any doubt about the result. The lack of popular pressure for reforms or new...
Two thirds of OPEC members and Russia among countries posing the most risk At a time when the cost of oil is spiking again, in part due to the interruption of supplies to Western countries from Iran, a new report reveals that further risks to global energy prices are manifesting in the form of resource...
Nabucco is dead or at least diminished, say Western analysts, killed by huge costs, logistical problems, policy shifts and consumption downturns, and the most important factor – lack of gas sources. Neither Azerbaijan or Turkmenistan, first pressured by Russia, then enlisted in smaller regional...