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Turkmenistan sees diversification of its natural gas supplies to world markets as a major energy policy priority, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov told the fourth International Gas Congress, taking place this week in Ashgabat. "Our country is gradually increasing its exports of natural gas," according...
Progress on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) has been waiting for an oil major to agree to invest in the $7.6 billion 1,800-kilometer project, but with Ashgabat reluctant to sign production-sharing-agreements to enable investors to share in upstream profits, no company appears to be...
Our respected colleague Mikhail Korchemkin of East European Gas Analysis brought to our attention an intriguing comment contained within the The April issue of Blue Fuel newsletter of Gazprom-Export Global Newsletter. The article, Southern Corridor Pipeline of Discord and Repositioning of Italy, contains...
Turkmenistan is likely to produce 76.9 billion cubic meters of gas in 2013 and expects to export 43.9 bcm during the same period. A government official, who asked not to be named, told Reuters that last year Turkmenistan had planned to produce 68.6 bcm of gas and export 40.3 bcm. He declined to...
Turkmenistan is going to increase export of liquefied natural gas in 2013, according to Trend, citing an announcement from country’s Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. "A powerful gas production complex functioning in Naip and Bagaja entered into the new year with confidence. Production...
Ukraine will not be able to source gas supplies from Turkmenistan because the central Asian country is contractually committed to Russia, sectoral experts have said. A press conference in Moscow heard that proposals to lessen Ukrainian dependence on Russian gas with Turkmen contracts were not practical.
The Ukrainian government has revived a Black Sea exploration deal with US firm Vanco, which was put on ice by the previous government of Yulia Tymoshenko. Reuters reports the decision is part of renewed efforts by President Viktor Yanukovich to tap new ways of developing domestic gas resources and reduce...
Last September, Turkmenistan made an upbeat announcement that it was working on the creation of a consortium for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline and would even attract new membership in the group as well as chose a leader. Since then, the momentum...
The idea of turning the Caspian region into a key world provider of oil and gas is still far from implementation. The intrinsic reason for this is the fall of production instead of its growth. Each country in the Caspian region is after playing its own game. Turkmenistan is increasing deliveries to...
Turkmenistan says it wants to push ahead with an ambitious plan to produce and export gas across Europe. A senior official announced the Ashgabat government would license extraction from the rich Galkynysh field, and hoped to transport it to markets in Europe and Asia. The pipeline is the TAPI project...
