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Turkmenistan to boost energy supplies to China
BAGTYYARLYK (Turkmenistan), Sept 27: Turkmenistan opened a natural gas compression station on Monday, enabling the energy-rich Central Asian nation to significantly boost the volume of its deliveries to China.
Speaking at the inauguration ceremony, Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov said the station would be able to pump up to 60 million cubic meters (2.1 billion cubic feet) of gas daily.
China is set to become the largest buyer of gas from Turkmenistan over the coming years as a pipeline linking the two countries, through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, reaches full capacity. Deliveries began earlier this year and are expected to hit 40 billion cubic meters in 2015.
The opening came as China and Russia signed a raft of energy deals, including on increasing natural gas exports to Beijing. Gazprom, Russias state-controlled gas producing company, said it expects to be able to supply China with 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually starting in late 2015, but a final agreement has not yet been signed.
Russia used to have a stranglehold over gas supplies from Turkmenistan, but the country has increasingly sought out other clients
