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Russia, Uzbekistan reach agreement on new natual gas pipeline ALMATY, Sept. 2 (Xinhua) -- Russia and Uzbekistan agreed Tuesday to build a new natural gas pipeline through Uzbekistan to export Turkmen and Uzbek natural gas, said news reaching here Tuesday from Tashkent, the Uzbek capital. The two countries have agreed on joint construction of the pipeline to meet the challenge of increasing gas export from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, said visiting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin...

Text of report by corporate-owned Russian news agency Interfax Tashkent, 2 September: Uzbek President Islom Karimov has categorically denied claims that Tashkent, with its actions, is trying to limit the transportation of Central Asian gas to Russia. "Somebody somewhere has been saying that the transportation of hydrocarbons and gas from Central Asia, in other words, from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan is facing certain problems. There is a lot of fantasy about this and it serves those looking...

Excerpt from report by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Asgabat, 29 August: President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan and the president of the People's Republic of China (PRC), Hu Jintao, have agreed to increase the throughput capacity of the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline currently under construction. "The future gas main pipeline which will deliver not 30bn cu.m. but 40bn cu.m. of gas to the PRC annually is rightly called the project of the century," the Turkmen president...

Text of report by state-owned Turkmen TV Altyn Asyr channel on 2 August A new consignment of high-pressure-resistant pipes intended for the construction of the Turkmenistan-China gas pipeline, one of the major construction projects of our golden age, has just arrived [in Turkmenistan]. In the meantime, the construction of the gas pipeline is intensifying. The 7,000-km gas pipeline of international importance will run via the territories of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and China....

Russian gas monopoly Gazprom has signed a series of agreements with the government of Turkmenistan relating to gas pricing, investments in the Turkmen natural gas industry and the establishment of a Gazprom representative office in the central Asian country. An agreement was also signed on the principles for the gas pricing structure of Turkmen gas, which will help fix a price based on the market principles within the framework of Gazprom's long-term contract for natural gas purchase from...

MOSCOW. July 25 (Interfax) - Russian natural gas giant Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) announced on Thursday that it has pledged to take part in gas projects in Turkmenistan. "Agreements have been reached on the financing and construction by Gazprom of new trunk gas pipelines to run from the east of the country, on building production infrastructures in gas fields and on increasing the capacity of the Turkmen section of the Caspian Gas Pipeline to 30 billion cubic meters. Gazprom will take part in its...

Excerpt from report by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Almaty, 9 July: Construction of the Kazakh section of a gas pipeline to China with the capacity of 30bn cu. m. a year has been started in [southern] Almaty Region. The first welding work of the new line near Almaty was carried out by specialists of the KazStroyService [Kazakh Construction Services] company and China Petroleum Pipeline Engineering Corporation in Kazakhstan Ltd - potential contractors of the project. "Construction of...

ASHGABAT. July 4 (Interfax) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has spoken in favor of the speedy implementation of the Caspian gas pipeline project. "We are speaking of the speedy implementation of the agreement on the construction of the Caspian gas pipeline and the expansion of gas networks in Central Asia," he said during talks with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow in Ashgabat. "Both Turkmenistan and Russia are strictly fulfilling their commitments in the sphere of fuel...

ASHGABAT. July 4 (Interfax) - An agreement on the construction of the Caspian gas pipeline will come into force shortly, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said. "The intergovernmental agreement on the Caspian gas pipeline will come into force shortly when all countries complete internal procedures," he said after talks with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedow in Ashgabat. Medvedev also said work would continue on the four-sided agreement on rebuilding the existing gas pipelines....

ASHGABAT. July 4 (Interfax) - An agreement on the construction of the Caspian gas pipeline will take effect in the near future, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said. "The intergovernmental agreement on the Caspian gas pipeline will take effect in the near future after all countries complete domestic procedures," Medvedev said after talks with Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow in Ashgabat on Friday. (c) 2008 Daily News Bulletin; Moscow - English. Provided by ProQuest Information...