Over 800-km-long East-West gas pipeline with the carrying capacity of 30 billion cub.m. of gas a year is under construction in Turkmenistan. It will unite big gas fields and create conditions for export of Turkmenistan fuel to the world markets in any direction, wrote Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper on August 1, 2015.
The gas pipeline construction is carried out by the state concerns Turkmengas and Turkmennebitgasgurlushuk. It will start at the gas compressor station Shatlyk in Mary province and then crossing Mary and Akhalk provinces on the west it will be conncted to the Belek gas compressor stations in Balkan province, reads the article. “Several months is left before completion of construction of the linear section of the gas pipeline,” reads the newspaper.
Turkmengas Institute of Oil and Gas has worked out the feasibility study of construction, has done the engineering and project works.
The first two of six compressor stations – Shatlyk and Izgant – are being designed by the joint efforts of speciaists of the local institute and Ukrainian Vniipitransgas, reads the article. The same source said that the designers had to solve serious problems related to difficult sections of the terrain: work out the land improvement measures for the saline lands and the water-logged ground as well as necessary protection of gas pipes from the underground waters.
