Turkmenistan to increase energy supplies to Turkey

"Turkmenistan’s energy capacity that is growing every year allows to further increase the electricity exports to Iran and Afghanistan", the Turkmen president said at the meeting. Turkmenistan plans to produce 12.5 billion kW/h of energy this year. The energy bridge Turkmenistan-Iran-Turkey was commissioned on December 12 2003. 90 million kW/h of electricity was exported for the last two months.

The project of natural gas supplies from Turkmenistan to Turkey via Iran was another important topic of the meeting. Iran has imported Turkmen natural gas along the 200-kilometer border oil pipeline Korpedge-Kurt Kui with the capacity of eight billion cubic metres of gas yearly since 1998.

"Turkey is interested in speeding up solutions to issues related to the export of natural gas from Turkmenistan,” the Minister Guler said.