Turkmenistan and China have broken ground on works to expand production at the giant Galkynysh gas field.
Turkmenistan, which holds the world's fourth-largest gas
reserves, has exported nearly all its production to China since 2009, when the
Central Asia-China pipeline opened.
Galkynysh, in the Karakum desert about 400 kilometres (250
miles) east of the capital Ashgabat, has been producing gas since 2013 and is
the world's second-largest gas field, according to the British consulting firm
GaffneyCline.
Expansion works are being carried out by the state-owned
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC). -OGN/TradeArabia News Service
