Wednesday, 23 September 2009The United States is ready to assist Turkmenistan with its efforts to diversify energy supplies on global markets, Turkmen television cited the U.S. secretary of state as saying.
Turkmen TV said Hillary Clinton had met with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov with Washington stating their willingness to expand cooperation with Turkmenistan in a wide range of areas, including politics and energy supplies.
Berdymukhamedov said his energy-rich country is seeking to diversify its supplies to global markets and that Turkmenistan was ready to cooperate with U.S. companies in the development of oil-and-gas fields in the Caspian Sea.
At present, Turkmenistan has the option of supplying its energy resources directly to Russia and Iran, and will soon finish construction of a natural gas pipeline connecting the country with China.
Washington has repeatedly asked Turkmenistan to join the Nabucco gas pipeline project as a supplier.
The project, estimated at 7.9 billion euros ($11.5 billion), is designed to pump Central Asian gas to Austria and Germany via Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary, bypassing Russia.
In 2008, Turkmenistan exported over 47 billion cubic meters of natural gas out of the total of 70.5 billion cubic meters produced by the Central Asian republic. |
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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