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Tue, 07/15/2008 - 18:34
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Turkmenistan gives priority to Caspian gas pipeline.
ASHGABAT, July 15 (Itar-Tass) - Turkmenistan has stressed the"priority of the Caspian gas pipeline project Turkmenistan-Kazakhstan-Russia" and announced its implementation launch. The state-run Turkmengaz group is the customer of the 200-kilometre Turkmen section of the pipeline en route Belek-Garabogaz-Kazakh border, the press service of the Turkmen government reported on Tuesday, according to the local newspapers. Aside from the Caspian gas pipeline, Turkmenistan is also working on the projects of gas pipelines to China, Europe (trans-Caspian), Pakistan and India (trans-Afghan).
"The Turkmen side is approaching the Caspian project from thepositions of strategic long-term planning," the government press service noted. Without waiting for ratification of intergovernmental agreements the Turkmen side has already studied the route of the gas pipeline, conducted the conceptual research and preliminary engineering design based on which it will soon announce tenders for the supply of large-diameter pipes and necessary equipment.
Although the intergovernmental agreement envisages the delivery of gas to the border of Turkmenistan amounting to 10 billion cubic metres annually, stressed the Turkmen government's press service, "the reconstruction of the exiting and building of a new pipeline artery will make it possible to maximally use the existing potential of gas routes and increase their total throughput capacity to 20 billion cubic metres of Turkmen natural gas." The initiative to build along the Caspian coast the gas transportsystem was put forward by Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov at a Turkmen-Russian-Kazakh summit in spring last year. In December 2007, the sides signed in Moscow another document - an intergovernmental agreement backed by the feasibility study of the project.
"The Turkmen side is approaching the Caspian project from thepositions of strategic long-term planning," the government press service noted. Without waiting for ratification of intergovernmental agreements the Turkmen side has already studied the route of the gas pipeline, conducted the conceptual research and preliminary engineering design based on which it will soon announce tenders for the supply of large-diameter pipes and necessary equipment.
Although the intergovernmental agreement envisages the delivery of gas to the border of Turkmenistan amounting to 10 billion cubic metres annually, stressed the Turkmen government's press service, "the reconstruction of the exiting and building of a new pipeline artery will make it possible to maximally use the existing potential of gas routes and increase their total throughput capacity to 20 billion cubic metres of Turkmen natural gas." The initiative to build along the Caspian coast the gas transportsystem was put forward by Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov at a Turkmen-Russian-Kazakh summit in spring last year. In December 2007, the sides signed in Moscow another document - an intergovernmental agreement backed by the feasibility study of the project.
