However, the BCM also recorded less optimism among those surveyed than there was a year ago.
Barai "also has informed its investors that it commenced an orderly wind down of the BCM funds, " the letter said.
Beijing and Ashgabat reportedly agreed at the March 1 meeting to increase these total exports to 60 bcm per year.
No specific date has been reported for when Turkmenistan aims to have natural gas exports to China reach 60 bcm per year.
Russia was importing nearly 48 bcm of natural gas before the pipeline broke, but stopped importing supplies completely for nearly a year afterward.
The BCM confidence index is 12, up from -9.3 in the last quarter and the highest level since the second quarter of 2011.
However, the target date to increase the exports to 40 bcm has been pushed back to 2015 because the construction of an additional pipeline has been delayed.
Tens of millions of dollars of BCM equipment are spread throughout Houston in more than 50 different locations, most of it not owned or managed by the college.
By 2030, the US will depend more on gas than on oil. while China is growing its use of natural gas from 130 billion cubic metres last year to 545 bcm in 2035.
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.
These import numbers are set to rise sharply, with Russia and Poland signing a new natural gas contract in February 2010 that will see long-term Russian gas imports rise to 11 bcm annually.
Turkmenistan also has a population of only about 5 million, and little real domestic industrial activity, which means that the domestic demand for this energy is quite low, at a consumption rate of 21 bcm in 2009.
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, the only private medical school in the U.S. Greater Southwest, is recognized as a premier academic health science center and is known for excellence in education, research, and patient care.
Poland consumed 13.7 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas in 2009, of which 4.1 bcm was produced domestically and around 9.6 bcm was imported via pipes, with Russia specifically accounting for 7.1 bcm and Uzbekistan 1.5 bcm, although the latter also came via Russian-controlled routes.
Another study, published in the journal Phytotherapy Research in March, tested BCM-95 in 45 patients at a medical center in India and found two capsules daily had "comparable" efficacy to diclofenac sodium, a prescription anti-inflammatory, on two separate rating scales for pain, tenderness and disease severity.
Under the framework deal with China, Turkmenistan planned to export 5 bcm to China in 2010 using the first trunk of the Central Asia-China pipeline, and to then increase these exports to 40 bcm per year by 2012, when the second trunk line of the pipeline is to be completed.
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