The specialists of the Turkmengeologiya State Concern received a thick gas flow while testing well 1 in the Minara deposit in Yoloten Etrap, Mary Velayat. The geologists’ success devoted to the National Flag Day symbolically coincided with the Turkmen leader’s visit to Mary Velayat, where the President was attending the ceremonies of launching newly constructed facilities.

The programme aimed at implementing Turkmenistan’s profound economic potential assigns a special role to Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries. Having set the task to accelerate the development of the fuel and energy complex, which stands as n engine of the national economy, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov specified the increase in oil and gas production and processing into high-quality competitive products as the priorities. This task is being successfully fulfilled today, and the most vivid illustration of the effectiveness of the measures taken in this field is the firstling of the national petrochemical industry.

The financial-industrial group "Altcom" (Donetsk, Ukraine) will begin construction of a road bridge, Atamurat-Kerkichi, across the Amu Darya river in Turkmenistan before April of this year. This was reported by the company's deputy general director Mikhail Kovalev in an interview with the internet portal "Trans-Port."

A number of major foreign companies expressed their desire to participate in the reconstruction and technical modernization of the international sea port of Turkmenbashi, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan (TDH) said. Various versions of reconstruction projects of the major "sea gate" of Turkmenistan developed by potential foreign partners were presented to President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov on October 30 as part of his working visit to Balkan province.