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Watching The World: Turkmenistan's 'lucky path'

06/07/2010
By Eric Watkins
Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, eying increased exports of his country's natural gas, last week participated in a ceremony to weld the first pipes of the East-West gas pipeline."The construction of the gas pipeline has both economic and political significance," the president said at Shatlyk field's booster station.Altogether, the new 620-mile line is designed to transport 1.1 tcf of gas from Turkmenistan's Southern Yolotan-Osman field, which lies near the border with Afghanistan, to its Caspian Sea coastal region.According to analyst IHS Global Insight, the pipeline does not yet connect to any existing further pipeline, which could bring the gas to Europe, ...
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