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Today, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov arrived in the Uzbek city of Samarkand to attend the 22nd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).

Gazprom is ready to expand cooperation in the purchase of Turkmen gas on a long-term basis. Issues on this topic were discussed by President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov and head of the Russian holding Alexei Miller during talks in Ashgabat on Monday.

Turkmenistan has discovered 149 gas and gas condensate fields with reserves of more than 4.97 trillion cubic meters of gas. This, with reference to the Turkmen media, is reported by the Russian agency of economic information Prime.

Turkmen geologists have received an industrial inflow of natural gas at the new "Sherepli" field in the southeastern region of Turkmenistan, the official press writes today.

Turkmenistan in January-April 2022 increased natural gas exports to China by 1.53 times in monetary terms compared to the same period in 2021, TASS writes with reference to the Main Customs Administration of the People's Republic of China.

49 deals totaling $48.8 million and 1.1 million Turkmen manats were concluded at the auctions of the State Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange of Turkmenistan over the past week.

As of Wednesday, April 27, 24 deals had been concluded at the State Commodity Exchange of Turkmenistan (GTSBT) for a total amount of more than $ 2.9 million, and more than 1.1 million. Turkmen manats, reports ORIENT correspondent.

Kazakhstan intends to stop exporting its gas and start buying blue fuel from neighboring countries, including Turkmenistan, Kazakh media wrote.

In 2021, specialists from the Lebap Regional Department for Gas Production of the Turkmengas State Concern increased the production of blue fuel by 44% compared to 2020, writes the website of the oil and gas complex of Turkmenistan.

Turkmenistan continues to rank first in the export of pipeline natural gas to China: in January-February 2022, China imported $1.44 billion from Turkmen gas (an increase of 1.47 times), according to statistics from the General Customs Administration of China.