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12/16/09

China Beats EU to Turkmen Gas

BusinessWeek

"China Beats EU to Turkmen Gas
In a setback for Europe's hopes to obtain more natural gas from Central Asia, Turkmenistan and China have opened a major new pipeline built at lightning speed

By Andrew Rettman

Turkmenistan and China inaugurated a major new gas pipeline on Monday (14 December), complicating the EU's energy ambitions in Central Asia.

Chinese leader Hu Jintao switched on the gas at a ceremony on the Turkmen-Uzbek border with Turkmen president Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov and the leaders of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. "

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