Iran, Turkmenistan inaugurate new gas pipeline
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  • Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad inaugurated a pipeline running from the giant Turkmen gas field to Iran on January 6 in Dauletabad. An agreement was also signed to start work on the Turkmen section of a planned railroad from Kazakhstan to Iran. The Iranian president arrived in Turkmenistan from Tajikistan, where he had underscored Dushanbe’s and Tehran’s mutual interest in close neighborly relations.

    The new Dauletabad-Sarahs-Khangiran pipeline with a throughput capacity of 12 billion cubic meters (bcm) annually, will reach full capacity in 2011. This pipeline complements the Korpeje-Kurt Kui line (laid in 1997) that runs from southwestern Turkmenistan to Iran, with an annual capacity of 8 bcm.1

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