Europe’s decades-long eforts to secure natural gas supplies from Turkmenistan have been conspicuously unsuccessful. But uncertainty about the future of Russian imports, against the backdrop of the Ukraine war, may spur new eforts. Turkmenistan claims the world’s fourth-largest proven reserve of conventional gas. Turkmen gas could feed Azerbaijan’s southern corridor export route to Europe through Turkey, if a pipeline is built across the Caspian Sea. And Turkish and Azeri ofcials have made overtures to Ashgabat about Turkmen gas supplies this month. But a swift breakthrough is unlikely, based on experience.
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