ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, July 2 (UPI) -- A meeting between top Gazprom officials and the leaders of Turkmenistan points to the strong Russian interest in shifting its energy holdings eastward.

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, June 5 (UPI) -- Top Turkmenistan officials have promised to intensify security efforts in the country and work with the region to promote stability.

Dana Gas completes common user gas pipeline; Turkey, EU sign agreement on Trans-Caspian gas pipeline; Hungary sidesteps Nabucco criticism; India, Pakistan warm to Chinese role in Peace Pipeline

ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, May 28 (UPI) -- The European Union and Turkmenistan signed an agreement to ensure energy cooperation in a move away from Russian energy dependence, officials said.

WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) -- For the last 17 months Russia and China have been engaged in a three-way tussle with Western energy companies to develop Turkmenistan's vast natural gas resources.

BAKU, Azerbaijan, May 21 (UPI) -- Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan will make the fuel and energy sector a primary focus of bilateral relations, the president of Turkmenistan said Tuesday.

OPEC still insists its supply is not the cause of record oil prices; Ever-increasing profits from rising oil prices could help reopen oil fields in Canada; Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have agreed to energy cooperation

WASHINGTON, May 6 (UPI) -- TAP's promises of riches trump geography and politics as it would pass through some of the world's most forbidding places en route to India.

WASHINGTON, April 28 (UPI) -- Of all the post-Soviet Caspian nations, Western investors since 1991 looked most longingly at Turkmenistan, which was essentially unavailable during the reign of Saparmurat Niyazov.