Looking to a more short-term scenario, Turkmenistan may get a new buyer for its gas: Kazakhstan. Bolat Akchulakov, Kazakhstan’s energy minister, said at a briefing on March 25, that intense domestic demand could spell the end to exports by 2024. The need for gas may grow so much, Akchulakov said, that Kazakhstan could buy it from Russia or Turkmenistan. The former nation is likely to get the benefit of this first, though.
EURASIANET 29.3.22