Ashgabat turns on Iran taps
News wires
Turkmenistan resumed its natural gas exports to neighbouring Iran today,
according to Iranian media reports.
"Turkmenistan's gas exports to Iran resumed on Friday morning," Mohammad
Reza Forghani, Iran's ambassador to Ashgabat, told Iran's IRNA official news
agency.
Ashgabat halted its gas deliveries of up to 23 million cubic metres per day to
Iran in late December, citing technical issues. Iranian officials have said
the aim was to raise the price.
In early April, an Iranian energy official said negotiations between Iran and
Turkmenistan were continuing and that he believed the gas imports from
Turkmenistan would soon resume.
Vice-minister at Iran's Oil Ministry Ali Kordan said earlier this month Tehran
would accept an increase in the price of Turkmen natural gas imports as long
as it was "logical".
25 April 2008 09:30 GMT
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25 April 2008 09:30 GMT
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