Despite the current situation in the world, the results of the work for eight months show that our country continues to develop successfully, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said, commenting on the results of economic development of Turkmenistan in January-August 2020 at a government meeting held last Friday in the format of video communication.

The results of the development in January-August of this year of various sectors of the national economy, including the oil and gas sector, were summed up at the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers chaired by President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov via digital video communication system last Friday.

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

The priority areas of the Turkmen-Italian relations were discussed by President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella by telephone on Thursday.

On Wednesday, September 2, a videoconference was held between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and the Acting Chairman of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, Ajmal Ahmadi, the website of the Foreign Ministry of our country reports.

The drillers of the “Korpedzhe” Department of Drilling Operations of the “Nebitgazburavlaiysh” Trust of the State Concern “Turkmennebit” have achieved great labor success. For seven months of 2020, the rock sinking amounted to 31,756 meters, which is significantly more compared to the same period last year.

The stable production growth of the divisions of the State Concern "Turkmennebit" demonstrates the main indicators for seven months of 2020. Thus, oil production by the concern amounted to 2 million 290 thousand tons, natural gas - 1 billion 157 million cubic meters. At the same time, the implementation of the plan for the production of these hydrocarbons for the specified period amounted to 106.7% and 148.6%.

Turkmenistan regards the Republic of Korea as its reliable business partner, with which it intends to continue to build up productive cooperation based on great potential and mutual goodwill. President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov said this during a telephone conversation with President of the Republic of Korea Moon Jae-in, held last Friday.

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

Today, on August 26, in the Central building of the oil and gas complex, an online meeting of the heads of "Turkmengaz" group with the President of the Japanese company "Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd." T. Watanabe took place.

Another batch of pipes with a diameter of 325 mm for the construction of high-and medium-pressure gas pipelines has arrived at the "Marygazupjunchilik" Department.

According to the State Statistics Committee of Turkmenistan, in January-July 2020, the production of polypropylene in our country increased by 40.5%, polyethylene - by 140% compared to the same period in 2019. At the same time, the physical volume of polypropylene produced amounted to 71.1 thousand tons, and polyethylene - 137.4 thousand tons.

Since the commissioning of the Central Asia-China gas pipeline, the People's Republic of China has received 316 billion cubic meters of natural gas. Reporting this, the leading foreign media note that the transnational highway has been operating steadily for more than 10 years, which benefits over 500 million people.

Organizational issues related to the global forum were discussed during an online meeting of representatives of the Ministry of trade and foreign economic relations of Turkmenistan with the leadership of the organizing Committee of the world exhibition EXPO-2020, upcoming in Dubai (United Arab Emirates).

The Japanese TOYO Engineering Corporation has announced its interest in continuing cooperation with Turkmenistan in the field of fertilizer production, oil and gas and petrochemical sectors, Trend reports.