{"id":11355,"date":"2021-01-21T13:36:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=152862"},"modified":"2021-01-21T13:36:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:36:27","slug":"azerbaijan-turkmenistan-finally-reach-deal-on-lucrative-caspian-sea-energy-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/21\/azerbaijan-turkmenistan-finally-reach-deal-on-lucrative-caspian-sea-energy-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan Finally Reach Deal On Lucrative Caspian Sea Energy Field"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/9a2daf2c-090b-4008-a6db-03d49ad79090_cx37_cy12_cw54_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"wsw\">\n<p>BAKU &#8212; Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have reached a preliminary agreement on the joint exploration of a once-disputed section of an undersea hydrocarbons field in the Caspian Sea believed to hold lucrative energy reserves.<\/p>\n<p>The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry said on January 21 that President Ilham Aliyev and his Turkmen counterpart, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, supervised the online signing of a memorandum on the mutual intention to jointly explore and develop the Dostluq (Friendship) undersea field.<\/p>\n<p>The field used to be called Kapaz by Baku and Serdar by Ashgabat.<\/p>\n<p>The undersea field was discovered by Soviet explorers in 1986. Experts estimate that the Dostluk hydrocarbons field contains natural gas and at least 50 million tons of oil.<\/p>\n<p>For many years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Baku and Ashgabat were at odds over the ownership of the undersea field.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement of the issue will help pave the way for a trans-Caspian pipeline &#8212; a multibillion-dollar plan to link Turkmenistan&#8217;s giant gas fields to Europe via Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/01\/21\/azerbaijan-turkmenistan-finally-reach-deal-on-lucrative-caspian-sea-energy-field\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAKU \u2014 Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan have reached a preliminary agreement on the joint exploration of a once-disputed section of an undersea hydrocarbons field in the Caspian Sea believed\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,4,23,467],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11356,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11355\/revisions\/11356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}