Energy in Turkmenistan

  • The development of oil and gas resources in the Turkmen sector

    TURKMENISTAN, 2015/11/19 The development of oil and gas resources in the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea is a priority area for investments in the country's oil and gas industry, according to the country's Petroleum and Mineral Resources Minister, Muhamentnur Halylov. Speaking at the Turkmenistan International Oil & Gas Exhibition, the minister said that the country's oil and gas resources in this location are estimated at 12.1 billion tons of oil and 6.1 trillion cubic meters of gas. The Turkmen section of the Caspian Sea has been divided into 32 licensed blocks. Work is currently underway in five blocks. The remaining blocks are the subject of direct but not exclusive negotiations for all concerned parties.

  • Turkmenistan to produce Euro-5 gasoline from 2016

    TURKMENISTAN, 2015/07/21 Turkmenistan will start producing high-quality Euro-5 gasoline at the Seidi refinery from 2016, the country’s Oil and Gas Industry and Mineral Resources Ministry reported. The U.S. Westport Trading Europe Limited company won the tender for the design and reconstruction of a production facility for the new generation gasoline. This novel motor fuel is distinct from the previous generations in that it has a lower content of sulfur and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. With Euro-5, engines work quieter, they can be started much additional quickly and easily, corrosion is prevented, and vibration and fuel consumption is reduced.

  • General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano,

    TURKMENISTAN, 2015/05/15 Ashgabat has got a approbation from the IAEA, which will discuss the approval of its candidacy as a member of the organization in the General Conference to be held in Vienna in September, 2015. In a conference with the General Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, in the Austrian capital on May 12, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov thanked the IAEA Board of Governors for the adoption of the Turkmen government's application for membership in the international organization.

  • European Union sees supplies of natural gas from Turkmenistan by 2019

    EUROPEAN UNION, 2015/05/04 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 considerate. For Turkmenistan it is very significant to diversify its export options, while for the EU it is very significant 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 country with the world’s fourth-major reserves of natural gas, is keen to diversify exports of the fuel away from Russia which will cut its imports to 4 billion cubic metres this year from 11 bcm in 2014.

  • Turkmenistan electricity supply to Afghanistan

    AFGHANISTAN, 2014/02/08 Turkmenistan is ready to consider proposals to increase the supply of its electricity to Afghanistan, the country's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said at a conference of Cabinet of Ministers, a message from the Turkmen government said on Feb.7. "President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said that Turkmenistan is ready to consider proposals to increase the supply of its electricity to Afghanistan, inclunding to expand its energy infrastructure with the aim of further output and connect to facilities in Afghanistan," the Turkmen government said. Additionally, the schemes of construction of additional power transmission lines were submitted for the president's consideration.

  • Turkmenistan is tapping into its huge natural gas reserves to generate electricity

    TURKMENISTAN, 2013/12/13 The country is poised to become Central Asia's major producer and supplier of electricity, Jumo Nazarov, a spokesman for the Energy Ministry, told Central Asia Online. "Yes, it's those gas reserves that have enabled us to produce a appropriate Planning Document for the Development of the Electricity-Generating Industry up to 2020," Jumanazar Karajayev, spokesman for the Council of Trade Unions of Energy Workers, said, referring to a seven-year national power industry development plan adopted in the spring.

  • Europe welcomes Turkmenistan's strategy for energy security 2012-07-27

    TURKMENISTAN, 2012/07/27

  • European commission, Turkmenistan to discuss energy supplies in September 2012-07-20

    TURKMENISTAN, 2012/07/20
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