FT.com / UK - Russia welcomes end to Turkmen gas dispute: "Russia welcomes end to Turkmen gas dispute
By Isabel Gorst in Moscow
Published: December 23 2009 02:00 | Last updated: December 23 2009 02:00"
Gazprom
signalled yesterday it would fight to retain influence over central Asian gas exports, settling an eight-month trade dispute with Turkmenistan and saying it would build pipelines to bring Turkmen gas to Europe.
Alexander Medvedev, deputy chief executive of the Russian state energy company, said Moscow had agreed to buy up to 30bn cubic metres a year of gas from Turkmenistan starting next year.
Gazprom would also build a pipeline to link untapped gas reserves in east Turkmenistan with a new pipeline running along the Caspian coast from central Asia to Russia, it said. read more>>
