Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 1

4-Jan-2010

CASPIAN

Turkmenistan To Resume Gas Shipments To Russia

Barely more than a week after the inauguration of a 30-40 bcm/year natural gas pipeline connecting Turkmenistans eastern gas fields with China, Ashgabat and Moscow on 22 December resolved a dispute over Turkmen gas shipments to Russia that erupted last April when a section of the Central Asia Center (CAC) gas pipeline exploded. During a visit to Turkmenistan by Russian President Dmitry...