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5.3.3.2 Turkmenistan

Reserves

With its 17,500 bcm (183,170 TWh) of proven natural gas reserves Turkmenistan ranks in the top four of countries with the largest gas reserves in the world. Natural gas plays a significant role in Turkmenistan energy mix with a 78% share of the overall energy consumption and even 100% in the power generation sector.

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Figure 5.50: Proved natural gas reserves worldwide by country

(Source own depiction based on data from BP Statistical Report 2014)

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Demand

Figure 5.51: Turkmenistan’s natural gas production and consumption 1992 – 2010 (Source EIA, Country Analysis Briefs, Turkmenistan, January 2012)

Exports

Since 1992, the key market of Turkmenistan gas is Russia but this has been changed abruptly in 2009. As a consequence of damages on the Central Asia-Center pipeline which brings gas to Russia, Turkmenistan exports suffered serious declines from a high of 71bcm (781GWh) in 2008 to 37bcm (407TWh) in 2009 1) .

1) Country Analysis Briefs, Turkmenistan, EIA, January 2012

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