VOL. XXXVIII

NO. 48

28-AUGUST-1995

Gas Supply

Exxon Joins Mitsubishi And China In Turkmen-Japan Gasline Study

Esso China Inc, an affiliate of Exxon Corporation of the US, announced on 22August that it will join Japan's Mitsubishi and the China National PetroleumCorporation (CNPC) in a study to assess the feasibility of building a naturalgas pipeline that would run 7,000 kms. from Turkmenistan's gasfields to theJapanese city of Nagasaki. The gasline would cross Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan andrun...