![](/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/region-central-asia.jpg)
Latest Articles about Turkmenistan
![](/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Nabucco_Pipeline__EDM__September_15__2010_01.jpg)
Top European Officials in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan Promote Nabucco (Part One)
The European Commission’s President, Jose Manuel Barroso, and EU Energy Commissioner, Guenther Oettinger, are starting on January 13 an unprecedented joint visit to Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. They are responding to Turkmenistan’s recent positive signals about supplies for the EU’s Nabucco transport project, but also to... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/TAPI_pipeline_agreement__EDM_December_14__2010.jpg)
TAPI: The Audacity of Pipeline Hope
On December 11 in Ashgabat, the top officials of four participant countries signed agreements on a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, favored on and off (currently on again) by the US government. Presidents Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai, and Pakistan’s Asif Ali Zardari,... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/TAPI_pipeline__EDM_December_10__2010.jpg)
Turkmenistan Encourages Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline
Framework agreements on a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline (TAPI) are scheduled for signing by high-level officials of the four countries on December 11 in Ashgabat (Turkmen Television, Press Trust of India, December 8, 9). Its economics and its political symbolism aside, TAPI’s implementation is hardly conceivable on... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Turkmen_Gas_EDM_November_30__2010.jpg)
Turkmen Energy Initiatives Cripple Russia’s Status as an “Energy Superpower”
A few years ago it was common to refer to Russia as an “Energy Superpower.” High global energy prices prior to the global financial crisis and Russia’s control over Central Asian oil and gas exports underscored the seemingly irrefutable proposition of Moscow’s influence. Yet, this... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Gurbanguly_Berdymukhamedov__EDM_October_29__2010_02.jpg)
Turkmenistan Seeks Expanded Cooperation with Qatar
On October 11, Turkmen President, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, visited Qatar and met with the country’s Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Khamad al-Tani, concluding a series of agreements in the energy, trade, and economic sphere (ITAR-TASS, October 11). The visit marks intensified efforts by Turkmenistan to diversify its... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Turkmen_Gas_Pipeline__EDM_October_29__2010.jpg)
Russia’s Message to Turkmenistan: Export Your Gas Anywhere Except Europe
On October 28, Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement strongly contradicting the Russian government’s views on the bilateral gas trade and on Turkmen gas export policy in general. The statement follows six days after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and a governmental delegation held... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/South_Stream__Gazprom__EDM_September_21__2010.jpg)
Gazprom’s South Stream Set Back On Several Fronts
Turkmen President, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov’s, September 16 statement, explicitly linking the Turkmen East-West gas pipeline with the European Union-backed Nabucco project (EDM, September 17), is not only a boost for Nabucco, but also a blow to Gazprom’s rival project South Stream. As Moscow analysts recognize, Berdimuhamedov’s... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Nabucco__AGRI_EDM_September_17th__2010.jpg)
Black Sea LNG Project: A Spoke in Nabucco’s Wheels?
On September 14 in Baku, the heads of state endorsed the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector (AGRI), a project to import natural gas from Azerbaijan to Romania and onward to Hungary. The project involves the liquefaction of gas for shipment by tankers across the Black Sea from Georgia... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/South_Stream__EDM_July_13th__2010.jpg)
Gazprom Counters Nabucco’s Advancement by Lobbying for South Stream
Russia’s Gazprom has proposed to the German RWE company to join Gazprom’s South Stream pipeline project. According to German business press reports, Gazprom Vice-President, Aleksandr Medvedev, has approached senior RWE management with this proposal. RWE, however, is a stakeholder in the EU-backed Nabucco project. Gazprom’s... MORE
![](/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Berdimuhamedov.jpg)
Berdimuhamedov’s Campaign for Political Pluralism and the Daikhan Party: Farmers of Turkmenistan Unite
Since Turkmenistan’s independence in 1991, the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan (Turkmenistanyn Demokratik Partiyasy) and its corresponding Revival (Galkynysh) political movement have been the country’s only officially-registered political entities. Now, after three years in power, it appears that President, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, may at last be interested... MORE