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EU expects to get Turkmenistan natural gas by 2019

Published Sun, May 3, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Ashgabat, Turkmenistan

THE European Union, keen to lessen its dependence on Russia for energy supplies, expects to start receiving natural gas from Turkmenistan by 2019, European Commission Vice-President Maros Sefcovic said in an interview last Saturday.

Russia currently supplies around a third of Europe's gas needs, but Moscow's annexation of Crimea and its involvement in the military conflict in eastern Ukraine has added urgency to the EU's search for gas from alternative sources.

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