Gas Leadership, System Flexibility, and the Role of Turkmenistan Enabling emissions reduction. Expect a sharper focus on the next phases of Galkynysh, underground gas storage, and modernization across gathering, processing, and compression – all with an eye on system flexibility and seasonal balancing across Central and South Asia. OGT foregrounds Turkmenistan’s bankable investment pipeline, with emphasis on: 

• Galkynysh – further development phases: capacity additions, processing upgrades, and compression to enhance deliverability and optionality. 

• The emphasis this year is on integration: continuous improvement of subsurface performance linked to offtake optionality and midstream resilience, ensuring upstream reliability converts into bankable, diversified revenues. 

Finance, Policy, and the ESG Calculus 

Policy and finance sessions weigh sovereign frameworks, offtake creditworthiness, political risk insurance, and disclosure – including practical methane and carbon intensity  metrics. The Financing Clean Energy fireside chat brings these topics into finer detail, with banks and multilaterals outlining what makes projects lendable now: transparent structures, durable contracts, and credible emissions pathways. 

Technology Priorities – From Subsurface to Emissions 

Technical tracks underscore directional drilling, digital subsurface, and advanced geophysics to improve recovery – paired with LDAR, continuous monitoring, and abatement economics to move methane from measurement to meaningful reduction. Case studies from Turkmenistan (onshore/offshore) ground the technology narrative in operations and outcomes.