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Article: TURKMENISTAN - The Natural Resources And The E&P Prospects.
- Article from:
- APS Review Gas Market Trends
- Article date:
- September 15, 2008
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With an area of 488,100 sq km, Turkmenistan has huge natural resources, including the world's third or fourth reserves of gas and considerable oil - with gas exports planned to rise from 60 BCM/y in 2007 to 125 BCM/y by 2015. There is a wide range of minerals to produce chemicals. The world's third largest deposits of sulphur are found in the Kara Kum desert, a land mass covering about 80% of the country. There are deposits of potassium, chloride, sodium sulphate salt and other minerals.
Slightly larger than California, Turkmenistan is almost equidistant from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and occupies the south-west corner of what was formerly Soviet Central ...