New Delhi and Ashgabat will on Saturday sign a historic pact that would give India a footing equal to the Chinese in Turkmenistan. The MoU would open avenues for bilateral cooperation between the two countries in the upstream and downstream hydro-carbon activities. Though Turkmenistan has offered off-shore exploration blocks to India, only China has been given a discovered field for development which would supply 30 billion cubic metres of natural gas to China over 30 years.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/india-turkmenistan-sign-historic-pact-natural-fuel-today
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/indian-express-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/natural-gas
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/natural-gas-exploration
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/turkmenistan
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india