But these projects are nowhere close to breaking ground, and Ashgabat needs immediate help.
In May, they struck an even more important deal in Ashgabat, capital of gas-rich Turkmenistan.
Summer temperatures in the capital, Ashgabat, hover around 45C but there are two large winter sports stadiums.
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With no other options, Ashgabat may very well be forced to accept that.
Beijing and Ashgabat reportedly agreed at the March 1 meeting to increase these total exports to 60 bcm per year.
The last thing Astana and Tashkent want to see is Ashgabat undercutting the price of natural gas they are negotiating with China.
EBRD's bankers prefer swinging Budapest, pretty Ljubljana or scenic Prague to the more austere delights of Dushanbe (in Tajikistan) or Ashgabat (Turkmenistan).
Earlier this month, state workers performed mass physical exercise and were encouraged to climb an 8km (five mile) concrete staircase built into a hillside outside Ashgabat.
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Whether this was the case or Moscow intentionally neglected to tell Ashgabat about its plan to reduce imports to sabotage the pipeline, the effect was the same.
He also drives to work every morning from his residence some 30 kilometres (about 18 miles) outside the capital, Ashgabat, and back home again in the evening.
According to the Ashgabat arrangement, Turkey agreed to buy more than 28 billion cubic metres of Turkmen gas a year, almost three times the quantity that it had signed up for in Tehran.
While Moscow said the failure to notify Ashgabat was an accident, Russia simply did not need the gas as European demand was down significantly due to the financial crisis and a relatively warm winter.
Turkmenistan signed a contract with China for 5 bcm of exports in 2010 and planned to increase these exports to 40 bcm by 2012, giving Ashgabat a much needed market for its natural gas.
The meeting will discuss the results of activities previously approved by experts at the meeting in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) in May 2011 and the Plan of Action adopted at the meeting in Tashkent in September 2011.
But the pipeline that took Turkmen energy supplies to Russia ruptured in April 2009, after Moscow failed to tell Ashgabat that it had significantly lowered its import level of natural gas, causing the pipeline to explode due to the increased pressure.
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