The International Investment Forum to attract foreign investment in the oil and gas sector of Turkmenistan (OGT-2022) will be held on March 29-30, 2022. The Forum is organized by the State Concerns «Turkmennebit», «Turkmengas», «Turkmenchemistry» and the State Corporation «Turkmengeology» in partnership with the Turkmen Forum with the support of the British company GaffneyCline.

CIS observers did not record violations that could have influenced the results of the March 12 presidential elections in Turkmenistan. This was stated by the head of the CIS Mission, First Deputy Chairman of the CIS Executive Committee Leonid Anfimov, the Orient news agency reports.

On Sunday, March 13, a briefing was held at the Garagum hotel in the capital, at which the chairman of the Central Election Commission of Turkmenistan, G. Muradov, spoke about the preliminary results of the early presidential elections in the country.

Last Saturday, March 12, from 7:00 am, more than 2,500 polling stations in Turkmenistan began voting in early presidential elections. In total, about 3.5 million voters were registered to vote.

Voting at polling stations for the upcoming March 12 presidential elections in Turkmenistan will be broadcast online on the website «saylav.gov.tm» of the Central Election Commission.

In Turkmenistan, on Thursday, all meetings of presidential candidates with the electorate on the presentation of election programs officially ended, the website of the Central Commission for Elections and Referendums (CEC) in the country reported.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed a resolution allowing the State Concern "Turkmennebit" to conclude an additional agreement with the company "Tatneft" on the provision of services at the Goturdepe oil and gas field.

Afghanistan is fully prepared for the implementation of the TAPI project. This was stated to journalists by the Acting Minister of Mining and Oil of Afghanistan Shahabuddin Delawar, reports the Afghan agency «TOLO news».

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) offered Turkmenistan its assistance in solving the problem of gas emissions from the crater in Darvaza.

The US Department of Energy raised its Brent oil price forecast for 2022 from $82.87 p/b. To $105.22 p/b, follows from the data of the monthly forecast of the department's Energy Information Administration (EIA), Interfax reports.

In the Central building of the oil and gas complex of Turkmenistan, a reporting meeting was held, at which the results of the work of enterprises in the industry for January-February of this year, held under the motto «Epoch of people with Arkadag», were discussed.

In January-February, the GDP growth rate of Turkmenistan remains at the level of 6.2%. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov announced this at a government meeting last Friday, at which the results of the country's socio-economic development for two months of 2022 were discussed.

The results of the work of all sectors of the national economy of Turkmenistan, including the oil and gas sector for January-February 2022, were discussed at a government meeting, which President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held last Friday via video communication.

Oil rose in price on Monday to its highest level since 2008, reaching almost $140 per barrel, after reports of a possible US ban on its imports from Russia, Interfax reports.

The Central Commission for Elections and Referendums in Turkmenistan has registered 2,726 national observers for the forthcoming presidential elections on March 12, according to the CEC website.