Batyr Amanov, Vice-Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers, reported on the steps taken to improve the material and technical base of the production facilities of the State Concern “Turkmengas” during a government meeting held last Friday via a digital system.

Turkmenistan representatives took part in the seminar “The role of women in the implementation of the energy transition in Central Asia”, which was held on June 12 - 15 in the city of Almaty (Kazakhstan). 40 representatives of energy companies, universities, enterprises and professional associations of Central Asia, including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan were invited to participate.

Turkmenistan continues to occupy a leading position in the supply of pipeline gas to China. In January-May, Turkmen “blue” fuel was sent to the Celestial Empire in the amount of 4.25 billion US dollars, while the growth was approximately 13.5%. This was reported by the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China.

At the Wekilbazar petroleum production enterprise three new tanks were built and put into operation by the builders of the Mary division of the cost-supporting repair and construction department of the Main Directorate Turkmennebitonumleri. Tanks are designed to store more than three thousand cubic meters of oil products.

The presentation of the book “Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov Charitable Foundation for Assistance to Children in Need of Care”, published and presented to a wide readership in the “Year of Happy Youth with Arkadagly Serdar”, was held in the Central building of the oil and gas complex of Turkmenistan.

194,457 tons of oil were processed at the Seydi oil refinery in January-May 2023. 146,000 295 tons from them are oil products: 77 thousand 100 tons of gasoline, 1,500 tons of fuel oil, 49 thousand 344 tons of diesel fuel, 10 thousand 744 tons of heavy vacuum kerosene, 7 thousand 577 tons of oil bitumen.

The State Concern “Turkmengas”, following the results of an international tender, will determine a company that will carry out the construction, supply of equipment and commissioning of the KS-1 Shatlyk compressor station for the East-West gas pipeline. The corresponding announcement was published on Tuesday, June 20, in the Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper.

Promising areas of interaction in trade, economic, transport and communication, energy and humanitarian and cultural spheres were discussed at the meeting of the Chairman of the Mejlis of Turkmenistan Dunyagozel Gulmanova with the delegation of the European Parliament. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.

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

The economic society “Belli” will build the national pavilion of Turkmenistan for the World Exhibition “EXPO-2025”, which will be held in Osaka (Japan) in 2025. This is provided for by the decree of President Serdar Berdimuhamedov, published on Monday in the leading media of Turkmenistan.

President Serdar Berdimuhamedov signed a resolution approving the Roadmap for the development of international cooperation aimed at studying the issue of Turkmenistan joining the Global Methane Commitment for 2023-2024, as well as the Action Plan for its implementation.

“The theme of the International Conference held in Ashgabat is rather topical, as evidenced by the composition of its participants, including representatives of government agencies, large international organizations, banks, big gas companies, scientists, leading specialists and experts in the oil and gas sphere.

On June 15, the capital of Turkmenistan hosted the International Scientific Conference “Energy Prospects, New Technologies for the Development of Hydrocarbon Deposits”. The conference was organized by the State Concerns "Turkmengas" and "Turkmennebit", the State Corporation "Turkmengeology" in partnership with the ES "Turkmen Forum" and the British company Gaffney Cline.

On Friday, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov took part in the groundbreaking ceremony for the second phase of the construction of the city of Arkadag, TDH reports today.

In remote settlements of Turkmenistan, the Turkmenenergo energy corporation plans to build solar power plants with a total capacity of more than 6 MW at the first stage. This was announced by the head of the service for the development of renewable energy sources “Turkmenenergo” Dovlet Allayarov at the International Scientific and Practical Conference: «Energy Prospects, New Technologies for the Development of Hydrocarbon Deposits”, which took place on Thursday in Ashgabat.