Turkmenistan has declared top priority the project of Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan-Russia gas pipeline and announced the launch of its actual implementation.
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Turkmenistan: Gas Pipeline with Kazakhstan, Russia Is Top Priority
Turkmenistan has declared top priority the project of Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan-Russia gas pipeline and announced the launch of its actual implementation, ITAR-TASS reported from Ashkhabad July 15.
The length of Turkmen section reaches 200 kilometers and state-run Turkmengas will stand for this Asian state in the project. In addition to it, Turkmenistan is studying the projects for the gas pipelines running to China, Europe (Trans-Caspian pipeline), Pakistan and India (Trans-Afghan pipeline).
“The Turkmen party approaches the Caspian project in terms of long and strategic planning,” the news service of Turkmen government announced. Turkmenistan has explored the route, held conceptual study and conducted preliminary design engineering without waiting for the ratification of intergovernmental agreements with Russia and Kazakhstan. The tenders for supplies of large-diameter pipes and equipment will be announced in the near term.
Despite that the intergovernmental agreement provides for annual deliveries of up to 10 billion cu meters to Turkmen borders, the rebuilding of old pipeline facilities and construction of new ones will widen the capacity to 20 billion cu meters of Turkmen gas, the news service specified.
It was Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov that suggested constructing the pipeline in the spring of 2007, when meeting his Russian and Kazakh counterparts. Backed up by the feasibility study, the respective intergovernmental agreement was inked in Moscow in December of 2007.
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