BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 11
By Jeila Aliyeva - Trend:
About 260 billion cubic meters of natural gas were exported from Central Asia to China via Turkmenistan–Uzbekistan–Kazakhstan–China gas pipeline, and more than 80 percent of this volume accounted for Turkmenistan, the Embassy of Turkmenistan in Azerbaijan told Trend.
The biggest part of the gas supplied from the Turkmen side was extracted from the fields operated by Turkmengas State Concern.
The embassy added that a new field in Bagtyyarlyk contractual PSA territory is being put into operation in the country. The exploration and development of this field are carried out by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).
CNPC signed the Bagtyyarlyk Production Sharing Agreement with Turkmenistan in 2007, and began to purchase natural fuel in Central Asia since 2009, after the launch of a gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to China through the territories of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
The total production volume has reached over 1.5 million tons of gas condensate and more than 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas, about 93 billion cubic meters of which are exported.
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