Caspian Pipeline Likely to Use Existing Capacities in Western Turkmenistan – Miller

ASHGABAT. May 11 (Interfax) – It is likely that the route of the Caspian pipeline “will lie within the corridor of the existing Central Asia-Center-3 pipeline” in western Turkmenistan, Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) CEO Alexei Miller said.

The current capacity of the pipeline cannot secure the ever- growing rates of Russian-Turkmen gas cooperation, Miller said.

It was planned that the design capacity of the pipeline would be 10 billion cubic meters of gas and “the pipeline secured the pumping of 400 million cubic meters in 2006,” Miller said.

Assuming accelerated rates of hydrocarbon development in western Turkmenistan, “the pipeline should work in its newer version,” Miller said.

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