Gazprom Opens Turkmen Talks

摘要

Gazprom reportedly opened talks this week on revising the terms of natural gas purchases from Turkmenistan, two months after relations soured over a pipeline explosion that halted almost all the Central Asian nation's gas exports. The Russian gas giant now wants a price formula based on European oil prices, rather than the fixed price of $300/Mcm negotiated earlier this year. That would allow it to buy Turkmen gas for $220/Mcm in the third quarter and $160/Mcm in the fourth, the Russian daily Kommersant said Tuesday