For eight months of this year, the production volume of natural and associated gas in Turkmenistan exceeded 55 billion cubic meters, Report informs.
This is 10.4 billion cubic meters more than in the same period last year.
The increase in natural gas production is related mainly to the growing demand for gas in the world markets. Thus, Turkmenistan exported almost 31 billion cubic meters of gas, which is 8.3 billion cubic meters more than in January-August 2020.
China is the primary importer of Turkmen gas. The Central Asia-China gas pipeline supplies 40 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas per year, and its total capacity is 55 billion cubic meters. Since the launch of this pipeline, more than 300 billion cubic meters of commercial gas have been exported to China from the Turkmen fields.