Turkmenistan's High Gas Prices Hinder Export Deals

It’s been just over a year since Turkmenistan, a country boasting the world’s fourth or fifth biggest largest natural gas reserves, ended decades of indecision and finally announced it was serious about exporting to Western markets.  For just about any other country, such an announcement would have touched off a frenzy of courtship by countries and companies interested in developing export deals. But with Turkmenistan the process has been slower and more difficult than would normally be expected, as recent events have highlighted.…