MALAYSIA: Petronas to build platforms in Turkmenistan

Malaysia's national oil company has been cleared to begin building oil platforms and share in pipeline construction in Turkmenistan, local television reported Friday.

"President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has approved plans by Petronas to build oil platforms in cooperation with Turkmenistan so as to begin work on offshore finds as well as its wish to build pipelines in the country," a television report said.

 A platform assembly operation will be set up on the shores of the Caspian Sea, an official in the local Petronas office said.




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A platform assembly operation will be set up on the shores of the Caspian Sea, an official in the local Petronas office said.

The official said Petronas hoped not only to build oil platforms for its own use but for other companies as well.

"This will allow the establishment of another oil platform manufacturing centre for the Caspian Sea," he added.

Petronas has been acting as a contractor for Turkmenistan's state oil company Turkmenneft since 1996, and has since then carried out exploration and extraction in the Central Asian country.

Via: Agence-France Press