Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Feb. 28 / Trend H. Hasanov /
The international conference "Environmental Aspects of Trans-Caspian pipelines," organized by the Turkmen Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, started in Ashgabat.
About 300 representatives of companies, environmental agencies and research centers from nearly 20 countries attended the event. The leading specialists and experts of the fuel-energy complex, foreign ministries, international organizations and companies from Azerbaijan, the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Austria, Norway, South Korea, China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Turkey, UAE, and other countries are among them.
According to the organizers, this forum gathered a wide range of specialists on the Caspian Sea in Ashgabat. It became a vivid testimony to the fact that today Turkmenistan is successfully implementing the energy strategy. It has become an important international center, accumulating the establishment of effective mechanisms and principles of safe and efficient use of natural riches of the Caspian Sea.
The agenda of the conference includes such issues as international environmental cooperation in the Caspian Sea, compliance with environmental requirements and norms for exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbon resources of the Caspian Sea, environmental security, a review of regional and global experience in laying offshore pipelines and, in particular, using this experience in the construction pipelines in the Caspian Sea.
According to the report, along with other Caspian littoral countries, Turkmenistan is implementing a number of investment projects aimed at dynamic mastering oil and natural gas fields having demand on the global energy market. The work in this area provides integrated development of transport infrastructure.
The resources are estimated at 12 billion tons of oil and 6.5 trillion cubic meters of gas in the Turkmen sector of Caspian Sea.