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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Skyland Petroleum Limited has commenced oil production from its first well of several on the Kyzyl-Tumshuk oil and gas field in Tajikistan, the company said on June 20. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Many of the countries where the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) invests are known for their high energy consumption. Kyrgyzstan is no exception. It faces a legacy of inefficient energy use and many residential buildings are dilapidated, the EBRD press office reported. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — At a meeting with local entrepreneurs at Turkmenistan’s Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on June 8, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov said that the state budget allows for maintaining benefits for the residents of Turkmenistan, the Chronicles of Turkmenistan independent website reported citing official Turkmen media. The existing benefit program provides for free quotas for electricity, natural gas and water to the citizens of Turkmenistan. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — As Kyrgyzstan pins big hopes on future power exports as part of the CASA-1000 energy transmission project, we are republishing this article by Cholpon Orozobekova, originally published by The Jamestown Foundation’s Eurasia Daily Monitor: Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Kazakhstan now has a surplus electricity generation capacity of around 4-5 thousand MW a year and the country is considering the possibilities of electricity export and transit, Novosti-Kazakhstan news agency reported citing Bakytzhan Kazhiyev, chairman of the Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company (KEGOC). Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — This past week, Kyrgyz MPs vigorously debated the Government’s resolution to transfer stakes in nine energy companies in Kyrgyzstan to the charter capital of the National Energy Holding. Finally, 76 deputies supported the document and 27 voted against it. Continue reading