Why Mammoth Gas Reserves May Be Useless For Turkmenistan
April 1st, 2017
Via Frontera News, a look at Turkmenistan: Few people may realize that when it comes to natural gas, Turkmenistan is a giant. According to BP Statistical Review of World Energy, Turkmenistan has the world’s fourth largest proven natural gas reserves, even higher than the US. Its share stands at 9.4% of the total proven gas […]
Read more »Turkmenistan: A Struggle To Find New Gas Customers
February 9th, 2017
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at Turkmenistan: Forecast Upcoming elections in Turkmenistan are all but guaranteed to give President Gurbanguly Berdimukhammedov a third term in office. The country will struggle to open up new markets for its natural gas exports, a critical source of revenue, depriving it of leverage with its current buyers. […]
Read more »TAPI: A Transnational Pipe Dream
December 15th, 2016
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), a detailed look at the proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline: Forecast Until the Taliban and the government in Kabul arrive at a settlement to end the war, building the Afghan portion of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline will be difficult. So long as India and Pakistan are at loggerheads over the contested […]
Read more »Playing Through: Ashgabat Golf Club
December 15th, 2016
Via USAToday, an interesting report on Turkmenistan’s plans to develop a golf industry: Jack Nicklaus has been designing and building golf courses around the world for the last four decades, and most of his work has been overseas during the last 10 years. But his latest project in Turkmenistan is as intriguing as any of them. […]
Read more »Tajikistan, Turkmenistan: Submitting To Chinese Capture?
June 24th, 2016
Via Value Walk, an interesting look at China’s growing influence in Central Asia: Turkmenistan sits upon around one-tenth of the world’s proven natural gas reserves. Tajikistan is so poverty-stricken that around half its adult male population is forced to travel abroad in search of work. Even with their starkly different economic profiles, the two countries […]
Read more »TAPI Pipeline: A Path To Peace In Afghanistan?
January 2nd, 2016
Via the New Yorker, a look at the TAPI pipeline: When, on December 10th, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani returned to Kabul from Islamabad, he was greeted by a Taliban attack that killed more than fifty people at the Kandahar airbase and the resignation of his intelligence chief, Rahmatullah Nabil, who cited a “lack of agreement […]
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