Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 2

11-Jan-2010

CASPIAN

Turkmenistan To Resume Gas Exports To Russia

Turkmenistan was expected to resume gas exports to Russia on 9 January. Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov told RIA Novosti on 31 December that Turkmengaz notified the Russian firm that exports along the Central Asia-Centre pipeline system would begin after an eight-month interval. This followed a 22 December agreement between Russian President Dmitri Medvedev and his Turkmen counterpart...