Turkmenistan is improving economic ties with the U.S. The priority for Ashgabat seems to be diversification. Turkmenistan looks to Qatar as it aims to ramp up LNG exports. In late Continue Reading
Turkmenistan is scrambling to diversify its export markets. The problem, however, is that China is the only major customer of Turkmenistan’s natural gas. Other Eurasian countries could emerge as larger Continue Reading
Carrie Herzog was sitting at her desk in Montreal one day in early 2019, studying satellite images for signs of mud volcanoes. These geological oddities, common around the Caspian Sea, Continue Reading
The former Soviet republic is one of the world’s worst emitters of planet-warming methane. Its exported natural gas is becoming crucial to China. By Aaron Clark and Matthew Campbell Carrie Continue Reading
The patience of many in Turkmenistan seems to have reached its limit when it comes to poor government services and officials seemingly apathetic to the plight of the average person. Continue Reading
Russia’s mega-project to export its gas to China, the Power of Siberia pipeline, came online December 2. By 2024, the pipeline is expected to deliver 38 billion cubic meters (bcm) Continue Reading
Turkmenistan has resumed natural gas exports to Russia after a three-year suspension, Russian gas giant Gazprom said on Monday, confirming a report by Turkmen news website Orient.tm. “Supplies are taking Continue Reading
Russia’s Gazprom plans to resume imports of gas from Turkmenistan at the start of 2019, CEO Alexei Miller said this week, having ceased purchases in January 2016 on poor economics. Continue Reading
Turkmenistan completed an upgrade of its largest electric power plant on Saturday, which it hopes will help boost exports and eventually allow supplies to Pakistan, which would require the construction Continue Reading
Amid much (obligatory) fanfare, Turkmenistan has intensified its spin campaign on TAPI, the long-delayed pipe dream of President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov which is supposed to supply Afghanistan, Pakistan and India with Continue Reading
The grids of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan could be connected to bolster regional energy security, a regional lender said. File photo by Jawad Jalali/EPA-EFE Feb. 28 (UPI) — The electricity Continue Reading
In January 2016, the Russian media reported that Russia’s gas giant, Gazprom, had discontinued all purchases of natural gas from Turkmenistan and was not planning to resume imports any time Continue Reading
Bringing natural gas through a pipeline from Turkmenistan will help address chronic energy shortages in Pakistan, the Asian Development Bank said. ADB officials were on hand for the signing of Continue Reading
ASHGABAT (Reuters) – The European Union, keen to lessen its dependence on Russia for energy supplies, expects to start receiving natural gas from Turkmenistan by 2019, European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic said in an interview. Russia currently supplies around a third of Europe’s gas needs, but Moscow’s annexation of Crimea and its involvement in the military conflict in eastern Ukraine has added urgency to the EU’s search for gas from alternative sources. "We have good mutual understanding. For Turkmenistan it is very important to diversify its export options, while for the EU it is very important to diversify its imports," Sefcovic told Reuters in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat. "Europe expects supplies of Turkmen gas to begin by 2019," he said, speaking in Russian. Turkmenistan, a Central Asian nation with the world’s fourth-largest reserves of natural gas, is keen to diversify exports of the fuel away from Russia which […]
Parties to a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan agree to set wheels in motion by early 2015. UPI/Hamid Forotan/ISNA The four parties to the Turkmenistan- Afghanistan -Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline want to have a credible operator in place for the $10 billion project by the time members of the steering committee meet again in Islamabad in February. "All sides agreed that steps will be taken to start the project by 2015," project leaders said in a statement. French energy company Total was mentioned as a possible consortium leader, though it balked after Turkmenistan refused to offer it a stake in the Galkynysh natural gas field near the border of Afghanistan. It’s one of the largest gas fields in the world, with an estimated 925 trillion cubic feet of reserves, and is designated to feed the multilateral pipeline . None of the state-led companies in either of the countries involved have […]
U.S. welcomes creating of joint venture entity to steer development of a gas pipeline stretching east from Turkmenistan. UPI/Hamid Forotan The governments of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan , India and Pakistan last week created a joint venture project to steer a pipeline that would send natural gas eastward from Turkmenistan. "The United States government welcomes the establishment of TAPI Ltd. and the ongoing commitment all four countries have made to the project," an unnamed State Department official was quoted by the Press Trust of India as saying Wednesday. Twice during press conferences this week, State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke sidestepped questions on the project , saying he did not have the information on hand. Pakistani and Afghan leaders met separately this week to discuss implementation of the project, with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani saying it would ensure multilateral economic development . The government of Turkmenistan is hosting its Afghan, Pakistan and […]
Italian energy company Eni commits long-term to Turkmenistan. (UPI/Shutterstock/smereka) ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, Nov. 18 (UPI) — Italian energy company Eni said Tuesday it signed an extension to a production agreement for operations onshore and offshore Turkmenistan. Eni Chief Executive Officer Claudio Descalzi signed an addendum to the existing contract in Turkmenistan with his counterparts in Turkmenistan. The agreement extends the duration of the contract to 2032 and includes a separate agreement for the potential extension of Eni’s operations into the waters of the Caspian Sea. Eni provided no estimate of the expected reserve benefits of the addendum to its production sharing agreement. The Central Asian country is one of the largest natural gas producers in the world and exports most of its natural gas to China. Last year, the country opened its Galkynysh natural gas field near the border of Afghanistan . It’s one of the largest gas fields in […]
