Turkmenistan
ASHGABAT - India, Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan signed two cooperative pacts Saturday on a gas pipeline project linking the four countries.
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Energy-rich Turkmenistan is reaching out to China for a $4.1 billion loan to develop one of the world's largest natural gas fields, state media reported Friday.
SHATLYK, Turkmenistan - Turkmenistan on Monday started work on a $2 billion gas pipeline that aims to boost its export capacity and increase the reclusive nation's economic and political clout in the global gas market.
ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan - Energy-rich Turkmenistan will start later this month building a pipeline linking its natural gas-rich fields in the east to the Caspian Sea coast in an effort to increase its export potential, a state newspaper said Monday.
TEHRAN, Iran - State TV reports that Iran has began drilling its first exploratory oil well in the Caspian Sea.
