I am deeply convinced: if we set down the true aim and go to it by a carefully calculated route, a success imminent. Independent and neutral Turkmenistan confirms it above-said by the practice of its development, which has received qualitatively new acceleration in recent years. The country, as a fantastic giant, strides through barriers and difficulties, carrying the energy and optimism of the people.

The State Concern "Turkmengaz" will finance the construction of a gas compressor station with the capacity of 30 bcm a year at the gas field "Malay" in Lebap province. This was announced by the Director of the State Agency for the Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources Yagshigeldy Kakayev at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan. Yagshigeldy Kakayev is temporarily acting as Vice Premier for oil and gas, chemical industries and fisheries replacing Baymyrat Hodzhamuhammedov owing to the latter's ill health.

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and CEO of Italian oil company "ENI" Paolo Scaroni held talks in the town of Turkmenbashi on 2 June.

The International exhibition "Main directions of Turkmenistan's textile industry development" was opened on June 6 in Sergi Koshgi Exposition Center in Ashgabat. The forum is dated to the professional holiday of textile industry workers usually marked on the first Sunday of June.

An exhibition dedicated to the 1st International Gas Congress of Turkmenistan, which will start on April 14, opened at the Exhibition Palace in Ashgabat. As the Turkmenistan.ru correspondent reports from Ashgabat, 80 foreign firms as well as organizations of Turkmenistan's energy sector participate in the exhibition. More than 150 international organizations and companies from 32 countries will participate in the gas congress.

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 year 2009 has been marked with the truly historic landmarks in the successful implementation of Turkmenistan’s energy policy. In the period of the world economic crisis that has adversely affected the economies of the most of the developed countries of the world Turkmenistan abiding confidently by the sustainable development strategy has enhanced its reputation as one of the leaders on the world energy market, expanded energy export routes, strengthened the material and technical base of the fuel and energy sector and ensured a stable increase in the reserves of raw materials and the potential to produce various sources of energy.

The pace of construction of the Turkmenbashi-Ashgabat-Farab highway – the main traffic artery connecting the east and west of the country, an important link of international transport infrastructure increases with every passing day. The total length of this strategically important highway crossing the entire country is over 1,500 km. Of them 400 km – from Turkmenbashi to the administrative border with Ahal Velayat runs across Balkan Velayat.