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TASHKENT (TCA) — Landlocked countries of Central Asia, including Uzbekistan, badly need sea and rail transport routes for the transit and export of goods to foreign markets. One such transport corridor will soon connect Central Asia, across the Caspian Sea, to the Caucasus, Turkey, and Europe. We are republishing this article by Fuad Shahbazov on the issue, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor: Continue reading
TEHRAN (TCA) — Iran has signed an agreement with Russia’s LUKOIL oil company to jointly look for hydrocarbon reserves in the southern parts of the Caspian Sea. The agreement is significant given that the Caspian littoral states — Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan — are yet to determine maritime and seabed boundaries of the Sea, Iran’s PressTV news agency reported. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov signed a Treaty on Strategic Partnership between Turkmenistan and Russia during Putin’s visit to Ashgabat on October 2. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — The maximum potential of Kazakhstan’s Kashagan oil field will be revealed in 25-30 years, when oil extraction at the Caspian field is to reach 60 million tons per year to remain at that level for a long time, the President of the Kazakhstan Society of Petroleum Geologists Baltabek Kuandykov said in an interview with PrimeMinister.kz. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat on August 30 hosted a meeting of the Joint Turkmen-Georgian Intergovernmental Commission for economic cooperation, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported. On the same day, Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili held a meeting to discuss bilateral cooperation. At the Commission’s meeting, transport sector was named to be one of the Turkmen-Georgian relations’ strategic vectors. The South Caucasus is part of the Caspian-Black Sea transport-transit corridor, the use of which enables to ensure broad interregional integration with the countries of Europe and the Middle East. The sides noted the importance of creating the Afghanistan-Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey transit corridor. At the meeting between Turkmenistan's President and Georgian Prime Minister, it was said that Georgia supports Turkmenistan's initiatives to ensure a reliable and stable transit of energy and create international transport and communication infrastructure, Turkmenistan's state television reported. The sides also stressed that the geographically favorable location and common interests create opportunities for creating transit corridors involving the transportation capacities of the Caspian and Black Sea regions. These transport corridors will create wider opportunities for interregional integration, access to world markets and intensification of trade and economic ties in the Eurasian area. Turkmenistan has long been working on organizing natural gas deliveries from the Caspian Sea region to Europe, which has been supported by Turkey and the European Union, Sputnik news agency reported. Turkmenistan, alongside Azerbaijan, stands in favor of building a trans-Caspian subsea pipeline with the consent of the states whose territories the new pipeline will cross, including Georgia.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The unresolved legal status of the Caspian Sea remains the major obstacle to energy cooperation between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, as the latter seeks to export its natural gas to Europe through Azerbaijan and the Caspian Sea via a planned pipeline to be laid on its bottom. We are republishing this article by Matthew Kupfer on the Azeri-Turkmen energy cooperation, originally published by EurasiaNet.org: Continue reading
