On Monday, January 3, on the first working day of 2022, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov made a working trip to Mary region. From Mary airport, the head of state flew by helicopter towards the super-giant Galkynysh gas field, which has colossal reserves of natural gas.

One of the important events of the Turkmen-Japanese cooperation last year was the opening of a gas turbine power plant in Chardzhev etrap of Lebap region, built in cooperation with Japan. This was stated by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ashgabat Yamamoto Hiroyuki in his congratulatory message to the citizens of Turkmenistan on the occasion of the New Year, which was published on the official website of the embassy.

A conference dedicated to the motto of 2022 «Epoch of people with Arkadag» was held yesterday in the Central building of the oil and gas complex of Turkmenistan. The event was attended by the Vice-Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan, heads and employees of the oil and gas complex.

Specialists of the Korpeje Gas Production Directorate of the «Nebitgazchykarysh» Trust of the State Concern «Turkmennebit» achieved high results in the production of natural gas in the highly productive gas fields of Turkmenistan in the past year.

Oil quotes continued moderate gains on Thursday morning, thanks to data on a larger-than-expected reduction in US oil inventories last week.

The players in the global gas market are far from creating a global market regulator similar to OPEC. According to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, the gas market has not yet matured before this, Interfax reported on Wednesday.

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.