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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...

ASTANA. July 4 (Interfax) - Kazakh national oil and gas company KazMunayGas is studying the possibility of acquiring half of Oman's stake in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), Timur Kulibayev, chairman of the KazEnergy association, told journalists in Astana on Friday. "There will undoubtedly be interest. The national company is working on this," he said when asked if Kazakhstan intends to acquire half of Oman's 7% stake in the CPC. "Russia has expressed interest and, of course,...

ASHGABAT. July 4 (Interfax) - Russia does not anticipate any problems with the Caspian gas pipeline project, Sergei Prikhodko, aide to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, told reporters in Ashgabat. Russia should complete its pipeline agreement ratification procedures "in the very near future," Prikhodko said. "We do not foresee any problems with implementing this project: the necessary contractual and legal basis is in place, the required surveying work has been performed, and there are no...

ASHGABAT. July 4 (Interfax) - The Caspian gas pipeline project is proceeding on schedule, Gazprom (RTS: GAZP) CEO Alexei Miller told journalists in Ashgabat. Earlier Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kuprianov told Interfax that the start to actual construction of the gas pipeline is planned for the end of 2008 or early 2009. The pipeline, which will stretch from the Belek compressor station near Turkmenbashi in western Turkmenistan to the Alexandrov Gai gas metering station in Saratov region,...

Excerpt from report by Russian state news agency RIA Novosti Asgabat, 4 July: Construction of the Caspian gas pipeline will make it possible to increase the amount of gas supplied from Turkmenistan to Russia, says a joint statement made by the leaders of the two countries on the result of the talks [between presidents Dmitriy Medvedev and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow]. "There is a high-level partnership between the fuel and energy sectors of the two countries, which carry out and project the...

Text of report by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Asgabat, 4 July: Gazprom is not afraid of alternative projects for the transportation of gas from Turkmenistan and intends to put forward its own initiatives for cooperation, the chairman of the company's Management Committee, Aleksey Miller, has said. "The Caspian gas pipeline that we are building together with Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan remains a commercially profitable project," Miller said. Asked whether an agreement on the price of...

Text of report in English by Russian state news agency ITAR-TASS Moscow, 3 July: Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev will discuss with his Turkmen colleague Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow cooperation in the energy sphere. The Russian head of state will pay an official visit to Turkmenistan on 4-5 July. "The main attention during the visit will be given to bilateral relations, cooperation in the fuel and energy sphere," Russian presidential aide Sergey Prikhodko told ITAR-TASS. According to him,...