Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, July 19
By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend:
Deputy head of Turkmenistan’s Turkmenneftegazstroy state oil and gas construction concern Atakuli Tatov was appointed acting head of the concern, read a decree signed by Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
The subdivisions of the state concern are engaged in construction of oil and gas pipelines and development of oil and gas fields, reconstruction of oil processing facilities, as well as construction of reservoirs in Turkmenistan.
Turkmenneftegazstroy has implemented the project for construction of the East-West pipeline – the longest pipeline stretching in the country’s territory.
The pipeline was commissioned in December 2015.
Moreover, the state concern started to construct the Turkmen section of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline in December 2015.
Turkmenistan ranks fourth in the world in terms of the volume of its natural gas reserves.
Currently, the country exports gas to Chinese and Iranian markets.