The obvious customer for Azerbaijan's gas is Turkey, but Turkey has already told Turkmenistan that its plan to export gas through a planned 2, 000km pipeline under the Caspian and across Azerbaijan and Georgia to Erzurum takes priority over all other deals.
Meanwhile, China, Japan, South Korea, and other Asian export-driven nations will be nudging the new U.S. President to do what will be his first priority anyway: fix the U.S.economy.