The European Union's Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger, on a tour of energy-rich nations in the Caspian region, underlined the importance of Turkmenistan as a supplier of energy to the EU."Major European companies are interested in establishing full and mutually beneficial partnership with Turkmenistan," Oettinger said in Ashgabat, while Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov said his country is prepared to consider "any proposal" to expand his country's export routes.The EU aims to reduce Russia's potential control over its energy security through Southern Corridor projects, which—in addition to the Nabucco gas pipeline—includes White Stream fro...