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Turkmenistan
Last Updated: July 2016
Overview
Map of Turkmenistan
- Turkmenistan is one of the five Caspian Sea littoral countries, an area with large volumes of oil and natural gas reserves.
- Despite its vast oil and natural gas resource base, Turkmenistan is not a major player in energy markets because of the lack of infrastructure, limiting its exporting capabilities. In the past several years, the country has been increasing investment to develop its reserves and export more natural gas to countries such as China.
- Foreign companies are allowed to participate in Turkmenistan’s oil and gas sector only when they partner with the state-owned Turkmenneft, the largest oil producer in the country, or Turkmengaz, the state-run natural gas company. Foreign partnerships often take the form of production-sharing agreements (PSA) and are generally for offshore resources. China’s CNPC is the only foreign company that has an onshore natural gas PSA with Turkmenistan according to the Oil and Gas Journal.
- Total primary energy consumption in Turkmenistan was 1.48 quadrillion British thermal units in 2015 and has almost doubled over the past decade, according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2016. Natural gas accounted for approximately 83%, and petroleum products 17% of total energy consumption.
Oil
- Turkmenistan had an estimated 600 million barrels of proven oil reserves as of January 2016, according to the Oil and Gas Journal. The country’s estimated total petroleum and other liquids production in 2015 was 261,000 barrels per day (b/d), an increase from 2014, which averaged 249,000 b/d according to the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2016.
- Turkmenistan has two oil refineries, the Seidi and Turkmenbashi, with a total crude oil distillation capacity of almost 237,000 b/d.
- Turkmenistan has a small domestic crude oil pipeline network linking onshore oil fields with the Turkmenbashi refinery and Caspian ports. Turkmenistan has virtually no international oil pipeline infrastructure except a pipeline between the Seidi refinery in northeastern Turkmenistan and the Shymkent refinery in Kazakhstan via Uzbekistan.
Natural gas
- Turkmenistan had estimated proven natural gas reserves of 265 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) as of January 2016. It is the sixth largest natural gas reserve holder in the world according to the Oil and Gas Journal, and was among the top 15 dry natural gas producers in 2015.
- In 2015, two new fields, Garakel and Bagli, were discovered near the Galkynysh field. These fields are estimated to hold 42 Tcf of recoverable resources according to the Ministry of Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan.
- The country has several of the world’s largest natural gas fields, including 10 with over 3.5 Tcf of reserves. These fields are located primarily in the Amu Darya basin in the southeast, the Murgab Basin in the south, and the South Caspian basin in the western part of the country.
- Turkmenistan produced more than 2.5 Tcf of dry natural gas in 2015. The Galkynysh natural gas field is the world’s second largest gas field. In September 2013, Turkmenistan announced the start of commercial production at Galkynysh. The first phase of development started in 2013 with production reaching roughly 1 Tcf at full capacity. The second phase introduced in 2014 is following the same plan as phase one. Phase three is planning to add over 1.2 Tcf of natural gas production from the Galkynysh field. The Turkmen energy ministry plans to produce about 3.3 Tcf per year from the Galkynysh field when all three phases are completed.
- Among the Caspian and Central Asian countries, Turkmenistan has become a leading natural gas exporter. Turkmenistan exported 1.3 Tcf via pipeline in 2015. More than 70% of exports went to China, with Russia and Iran also importing natural gas from Turkmenistan.
- Turkmenistan has signed several natural gas contracts with China, most recently in September 2013, and is slated to supply 2.3 Tcf of natural gas to China by 2020 through a network of parallel gas pipelines running through Central Asia called the Central Asia-China Pipeline (CACP). The CACP currently has the potential to deliver about 1.9 Tcf per year of natural gas starting in Turkmenistan, transiting through Uzbekistan as well as Kazakhstan, and finally entering western China.
- In 2015, Turkmenistan built the East-West pipeline that connects the Galkynysh field to the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea. East-West has a capacity of about 1 Tcf and is situated where the proposed Trans-Caspian Pipeline (TCP) would link with Turkmenistan. East-West is being used to deliver gas to consumers within Turkmenistan and could also be used to send natural gas from western Turkmenistan to China.
- The TCP, which is a proposed undersea pipeline, would provide an outlet for Turkmenistan’s natural gas to reach the European market by connecting to existing pipelines in Azerbaijan. Political issues have prevented construction of the TCP. The pipeline would have capacity of about 1 Tcf.
- In December of 2015 Turkmenistan began construction on its section of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Pipeline (TAPI). This pipeline is to start at the Galkynysh field in Turkmenistan and end in northern India. The pipeline has a proposed capacity of more than 1 Tcf per year and is officially scheduled to come online in 2019. However the pipeline faces significant security and political hurdles.
- According to Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Oil and Gas, a joint project between Turkmen and Japanese experts constructing 10 grassroots industrial plants across several locations in Turkmenistan has been completed. These plants are expected to process gas for the production of 17 products. Another consortium is building a separate grassroots petrochemical complex in Kiyanly. This complex is expected to startup in 2018 and use gas coming from the shelf of the Caspian Sea to produce ethylene, polyethylene, and polypropylene.
Electricity
- The electricity sector in Turkmenistan is controlled by the Ministry of Energy and Industry and is fueled almost entirely by natural gas. The country’s total installed generation capacity was nearly 5.2 gigawatts as of April 2016.
- Turkmenistan’s electricity generation exceeds domestic electricity consumption, allowing the country to export the remaining production. In 2015, the country produced more than 22 billion kilowatt hours (BKwh) and exported 3.2 BKwh. Turkmenistan is linked to the Central Asian electricity grid and exports electricity to Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey among other Central Asian countries.
- In 2013, the government developed a policy of modernizing and expanding its electricity sector by increasing transmission infrastructure and constructing 14 natural gas-fired electric power plants between 2013 and 2020. As of April 2016, Turkmenistan has 12 thermal power plants in operation.
- Turkmenistan plans to increase power generation from 19 BKwh in 2011 to 27 BKwh in 2020 and 35.5 BKwh by 2030.
Project Feedback
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12/01/2016 - Italy
First of all, congrats for this huge and helpful dataset!Secondly, how can I recover the data for Biodiesel production and see them in the chart/table? The Source button seem not to do any changes.. Thanks a lot again
11/28/2016 - Colombia
It would be easier, if when using metric units, instead of writing "billion kWh" you would specify whether this is 10^9 (as in english speaking countries) or 10^12 (everywhere else). Am I correct to assume 1 billion kW equal 1 GW?
11/19/2016 - Missouri, United States
International energy - consumption per capita years 2010 and 2011 seem wildly out of line with the previous years. US goes for 308 to 69,595 in 2010? Seems incorrect
11/11/2016 - Indiana, United States
I very much liked the previous version where excel downloaded data was much easier to work with. With this new version and the way it generates excel files when we download data, it takes me a huge amount of time to effectively use a downloaded file.
11/11/2016 - Virginia, United States
Per capita consumption data for 2011 by continent is coming up strangely. For global consumption of 529 Quad BTUs, it's showing per capita 9.5 trillion BTUs (which would assume a world pop. ~56,000).
11/02/2016 - India
Hi, great work with the interface. However, there are parts of the database that we could access in the previous version, that we are unable to access here (Imports and exports of petroleum crude and products, consumption of renewable energy in QTBTU among others). It would be great if these issues were cleared up asap so as to improve usability and access to data. Thank you!
10/24/2016 - India
Hi, We are unable to download crude oil and refined petroleum products imports by country. Kindly help.
10/13/2016 - Iran
Can you please create new links for your new things? I just saved a link for total renewable electricity net consumption, every time I just use this link address, but this time because of your update, it was not found. It makes me confused, I need this data in excel format, I search all of your website, I did not find this variable data/
10/11/2016 - New York, United States
The old system to download data was much easier - why fix something that worked well. I saw a comment that person can download all countries - I can not find that. Can you please direct me to it - thanks
10/01/2016 - Texas, United States
I'm just curious why the data period ends at 2013 - it's now Oct 2016 - seems like there should be data at least thru 2015. Has the beta site been replaced? Am I just in the wrong place?
09/28/2016 - Japan
I'm using the data for elec. generation (e.g. PV or wind) for my own research. Before this version, the data were down to 3 to 4 decimal places. However, only 1 decimal seems to be shown in Beta. It would be more useful and helpful for research if some options for more decimal place were added or units could be modified (e.g. other than billion kWh for generation). Thanks.
09/13/2016 - Norway
Hi, this gives me a very interesting picture of the global energy sector. Thank you.
08/29/2016 - Texas, United States
The organization of downloaded CSV data makes the data almost unusable. All headers for each country are shown as having equal value to the country itself so the data cannot be sorted without losing the country identification. I downloaded All Countries>Crude Oil and Lease Condensate Production. Column B makes every heading equal i.e., the country and various information headings. It is unfortunate that a download cannot be directly used but it is frustrating that as an expert Excel user I cannot easily determine a way to organize the data in a way that makes it usable. Thanks, Art Berman
08/16/2016 - Texas, United States
Really helpful and easy to use.
08/12/2016 - United Kingdom
Excellent. This is much easier to navigate and use.
07/27/2016 - Brazil
Excelent job! What does the "other liquids" in Total Petroleum and Other Liquids Production 2015 include?
07/18/2016 - India
Very useful data. However, it would be great if you could mention how much of India's energy (especially oil and gas) imports come by sea, in order to get a clearer picture of India's energy imports.
06/23/2016 - United Kingdom
I was using your import figures for china i.e. the pie chart for percentage world wide imports 2014 and when added up it is 99% rather than 100.
06/22/2016 - Japan
More new information will be helpful to understand global enegy situation.
06/15/2016 - Ecuador
Srs, I am probably one of the thousands readers that are eager to learn of the new information produced by EIA. Excellent, by the way. OPEC report on revenue is very informative. Our governments always keep us in the dark. Why???. Thank you
06/07/2016 - United Kingdom
Amazing data, thank you very much!
05/25/2016 - China
Very helpful information!! Well researched, clear figures and graphs.
05/18/2016 - California, United States
There is no data available for the petroleum or natural gas reserves in the U.S.A.
05/01/2016 - Australia
It is incredibly frustrating trying to view the data you want. Today I simply want to view the imports of crude oil in bbld in South Africa. BTU is a completely unhelpful metric.
04/22/2016 - California, United States
2014?? Where are the production numbers of 2015 and up 4/22/16?
04/03/2016 - United Kingdom
Fantastic resource. Very well researched, clear and easy figures and graphs. Well organised too. Incredible useful!
03/08/2016 - District of Columbia, United States
What a handy tool, thanks!
03/06/2016 - New Jersey, United States
Well organized information with easy access.
02/15/2016 - West Virginia, United States
Very helpful information!
02/14/2016 - China
I like the old version which had a country brief.
02/09/2016 - Saudi Arabia
Excellent work for the country analysis. However, i'm struggling to cite the South African country analysis report....would appreciate if you could sent it
01/30/2016 - Spain
Your website is very useful for me as a teacher, particularly the world thematic maps. My students like it as well. Thanks a lot!
01/22/2016 - Vietnam
Useful data for my work. Thanks sincerely.
01/04/2016 - Canada
Best government website ever
01/02/2016 - Turkey
Goood
12/29/2015 - Michigan, United States
We use your 'Total Electricity Net Consumption' data for comparing countries for a market potential index we create each year. Data in the previous years was available up to 5 decimal places. However, data is available with only 1 decimal place this year (through the beta interface) and comparing countries became a challenge because there are too many countries with the same values now. Is there a way to download the full data-set with all the decimal points available?
12/22/2015 - United Kingdom
Brilliant bit of website, made my life a thousand times easier!
12/06/2015 - Argentina
Excellent!!
11/29/2015 - Malaysia
May I know if there is a latest write up on Malaysia year 2015. The one I have obtained is 2014.
11/21/2015 - Virginia, United States
Terrific article on Brazil...thank you.
11/20/2015 - Egypt
I note that the analysis of energy in Israel in this site is not covered in details as other countries?
11/17/2015 - Michigan, United States
Great PDF file on Canada's energy and trade success! Exactly what I needed to bring me up to speed for my research on Michigan and on the Midwest - thanks! (Mike at McGuire Research)
11/15/2015 - California, United States
Why are your maps so hard to copy and past? It should be easy to get a nice graph of yours.
11/12/2015 - Alabama, United States
I work with Excel spreadsheets. I looked at your Excel download function and examined your Excel spreadsheet. It appears that if I am going to load the data into my spreadsheets, I will have to do one line at a time, each country individualy.
10/06/2015 - United Kingdom
The analysis on South Korea was a very interesting and worthwhile read. Great to see such an informed analysis presented with tables to illustrate it
09/30/2015 - France
Excellent interface, very very efficient. Having global data is definitely a plus. Too bad data goes up to 2012 and does not include 2013 and 2014. Comments coming from an IT manager used to major systems with large databases.
09/12/2015 - India
I always rely on data published by EIA to make various comparisons and analysis reports. This tool makes my job much easier.
09/11/2015 - Russia
Amazing tool, thank you for such a useful application for data export .
08/16/2015 - Colorado, United States
So... Pretty! Really appreciate you guys going the extra mile with your data tools, this makes my research so much more effective. You guys have been an utter joy to work with (not a typical experience for government bureaucracy), and this new beta is the icing on the cake. Thanks for the hard work you have put in to make this information clear and understandable! Looking forward to seeing what you guys cook up in the future.
06/09/2015 - District of Columbia, United States
Why can't I download any of this to spreadsheets? Why can't I download multiple years?
06/01/2015 - Nigeria
Dear Sirs, I have been using your data for almost 20 yrs, in particular the international Petroleum data. I like the granularity provided, by country by month. Unfortunately it seems from the beta site, that I can only access the annual data and only download as a CSV file. Is that correct? regards Casper
05/31/2015 - Virginia, United States
Where are the country pages!!!? I am writing a book chapter and referenced your site, where I found terrific info on India and Japan several months ago. Unfortunately, it appears you deleted those pages. Why?
05/27/2015 - Antarctica
I really love this beautiful webpage! It is very wonderful:) I love learning about this stuff!
05/25/2015 -
I need to access country profiles in .pdf form.
05/20/2015 - New York, United States
Thank you for all the info and help over the past few years. Before the layout, I was able to find annual #s of net exports of petro for each country, and now I have no idea where it is.
05/20/2015 - New York, United States
I am looking for bbl and bcf , not Btu , can you tell me where to look for country's oil bbl and gas in bcf? Thanks
05/20/2015 - Canada
Where can I find the original spreadsheets with the country data for Crude + Condensate and the one for all liquids. The new look is too complicated for me. The spreadsheet is more easily used for good analysis.
05/19/2015 - Texas, United States
Would like a link to the pdf of the entire country analysis brief.