On December 28, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov paid a working visit to the Russian Federation, where he took part in the informal Summit of the leaders of the CIS countries, held in St. Petersburg.

Summing up the results of the outgoing year, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov emphasized that, although it was hard, it turned out to be very good for our country. The head of the state said this, speaking on Monday at the final joint meeting of the government and the State Security Council in the outgoing year, at which the results of the outgoing 2021 were discussed.

The repairmen of the «Nebitgazchykarysh» enterprise of the State Concern «Turkmennebit» of the Balkan region have achieved great results since the beginning of 2021. The enterprise overhauled and commissioned 503 wells in January-November.

Vice-Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers Shakhym Abdrakhmanov reported on the situation in the fuel and energy complex in the Balkan region at a government meeting chaired by President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov last Friday.

68 transactions were registered at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan last week.

In 2021, the volume of gas purchased by Gazprom from Turkmenistan is likely to double and amount to about 10 billion cubic meters. This was stated on Friday by the Russian Ambassador to Turkmenistan Alexander Blokhin at a press conference at the embassy dedicated to the annual results of the Turkmen-Russian cooperation.

Turkmenistan continues to hold a leading position in pipeline export of «blue» fuel to China. According to the General Customs Administration of the PRC, during January-November 2021, the Celestial Empire received 21.91 million tons of Turkmen natural gas through the Turkmenistan-China pipeline, which is $ 6.1 billion in monetary terms.

On December 22, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov held a digital working meeting with the participation of Vice-Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashid Meredov, at which the results of working trips carried out on the instructions of the head of state to Pakistan and India on December 18-20, where the delegation of Turkmenistan received participated in international forums and held bilateral negotiations.

In January-November 2021, oil and gas fields were discovered in the world with a total volume of estimated reserves of 4.7 billion barrels of oil equivalent – this is the lowest level in 75 years, Interfax reports, citing data of the Rystad Energy consulting company.

The spot gas price in Europe has easily reached a new «round» psychological level of $2000 per thousand cubic meters.

With great achievements and successes, the Seydi oil refinery is confidently moving towards new heights of progress, as evidenced by the company's socio-economic indicators this year.

Cooperation in the oil and gas and transport spheres are highlighted as priority areas of bilateral and multilateral cooperation between Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. This was noted at the regular, 11th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Turkmen-Kazakh Commission on Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation, which took place on Monday in Ashgabat, the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan reports.

On Monday, on behalf of President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, talks between Vice-Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and President of Pakistan Arif Alvi were held in Islamabad, the website of the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan reports.

The Turkmen side calls on the international community, and first of all, the countries of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), to provide maximum assistance to the Afghan people. This was announced during the emergency meeting on the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers, which took place last Sunday in Islamabad, the website of the Foreign Ministry of Turkmenistan reports.

The issues of enhancing cooperation in the energy sector, and in particular, in the construction of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) transnational gas pipeline were the focus of attention at the meetings of the Turkmen delegation during a working visit to Pakistan and India on December 18-20.