{"id":82813,"date":"2009-12-15T06:11:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T11:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-just-broke-russias-monopoly-on-central-asian-natural-gas-2009-12"},"modified":"2009-12-15T06:11:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T11:11:47","slug":"china-just-broke-russias-monopoly-on-central-asian-natural-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/82813","title":{"rendered":"China Just Broke Russia&#8217;s Monopoly On Central-Asian Natural Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/~~\/f?id=4ae85e200000000000ca01a4&amp;maxX=381&amp;maxY=256\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Natural Gas Pipeline\" width=\"381\" height=\"256\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With one flick of a switch, Russia&#8217;s long-standing dominance and near monopoly  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tover Central Asian natural-gas exports officially came to an end on Monday. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> The Turkmenistan-China pipeline, which will carry natural gas from eastern  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTurkmenistan through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan into China&#8217;s northwestern  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tXinjiang region, went on line on December 14 during an inauguration ceremony  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tattended by regional leaders. It marks the first time in more than a decade  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat a pipeline has been constructed to pump gas out of the region, and is the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tbiggest effort to date to export Central Asian gas without using Russian  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\troutes. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> The ceremony in Samandepe, the starting point of the 1,833-kilometer pipeline  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthat originates in Turkmenistan&#8217;s gas-rich but  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpreviously untapped east, took place just over three years after the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChina-funded project was agreed upon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/China_Business\/KL16Cb01.html\">Read the whole story at Asia Times &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/china-just-broke-russias-monopoly-on-central-asian-natural-gas-2009-12#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/united-states-natural-gas-making-new-highs-in-the-pre-market-2009-12\">United States Natural Gas Explodes Higher On Exxon Optimism (UNG)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-imf-wont-bail-out-ukraine-as-government-finances-deteriorate-beyond-repair-2009-12\">The IMF Won&#8217;t Bail Out Ukraine, As Government Finances Deteriorate Beyond Repair<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/australia-copper-production-to-slow-next-year-global-shortage-coming-2009-12\">Australia: Copper Production To Slow Next Year, Global Shortage Coming<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/l9vspabB-MI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With one flick of a switch, Russia&#8217;s long-standing dominance and near monopoly over Central Asian natural-gas exports officially came to an end on Monday. The Turkmenistan-China pipeline, which will carry natural gas from eastern Turkmenistan through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan into China&#8217;s northwestern Xinjiang region, went on line on December 14 during an inauguration ceremony attended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}