Turkmengaz, Mitsubishi discuss natural gas infrastructure

Turkmengaz State Concern, the national gas company of Turkmenistan, and representatives of Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. discussed via video conference May 22 prospects for cooperation in the oil and gas industry, the Ministry of Oil & Gas Industry & Mineral Resources in Ashgabat reported May 26.

In a statement, the company said priority aspects of cooperation are “diversifying industry, creating a vast infrastructure of export "blue fuel" and innovative industrial complexes specializing in the processing of natural gas, to produce polymers and other chemical products.”

During the online negotiations, issues of preparing a preliminary technical project for the construction of a plant to produce 10 billion cu m/year of commercial gas were discussed. The plant is planned to be built as part of the next stage of industrial development of the 16-tcf Galkynysh gas field in eastern Mary province.