Oil drilling rig on the Cheleken Peninsula

Türkmennebit (also spelled Turkmennebit, also known by the translation of the name as Turkmenoil (in English) or Turkmenneft (in Russian)) is the

national oil company A national oil company (NOC) is an oil and gas company fully or in the majority-owned by a national government. According to the World Bank, NOCs accounted for 75% global oil production and controlled 90% of proven oil reserves in 2010. Due to thei ...

of Turkmenistan. It has its headquarters in

Ashgabat Ashgabat or Asgabat ( tk, Aşgabat, ; fa, عشق‌آباد, translit='Ešqābād, formerly named Poltoratsk ( rus, Полтора́цк, p=pəltɐˈratsk) between 1919 and 1927), is the capital and the largest city of Turkmenistan. It lies ...

. The chairman of the company is Guychgeldi Baygeldiyev. Main oil fields operated by Türkmennebit are Goturdepe, Barsa-gelmez,

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, Körpeje, Gamyşlyja,

Çeleken Hazar (until 1999 known as Çeleken, also written Cheleken; russian: Челекен; Persian language, Persian: Chaharken ) is a seaport town located on the Cheleken Peninsula of the Caspian Sea. It is directly subordinate to the city of Balkanab ...

and

Kemer Kemer is a seaside resort and district of Antalya Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey, west of the city of Antalya, on the Turkish Riviera. Kemer is on the Gulf of Antalya, of sea coast with the skirts of the western Taurus Mountain ...

, mainly in

Balkan Province Balkan Region ( tk, Balkan welaýaty, Балкан велаяты) is the westernmost of the five regions of Turkmenistan. Clockwise from north it borders Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan (north); two provinces of Turkmenistan (east), Iran (south), and ...

near the Caspian Sea.

References

Oil and gas companies of Turkmenistan National oil and gas companies Economy of Ashgabat {{turkmenistan-stub

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