Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 34

23-Aug-2010

CASPIAN

Turkmenistan Asks For Chinese Loan For South Yolotan, Starts BTC Exports

Fourteen months after Chinas state-owned China Development Bank (CDB) extended a $4bn soft loan to the Turkmen government, and eight months after CDB lent Turkmenistan $3bn for the development of South Yolotan gas field, Ashgabat has again turned to Beijing for financial assistance. On 12 August Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov told a televised...