Dragon Oil joins Ashgabat 2017 project

The Executive Committee of V Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games announced that Dragon Oil (Turkmenistan) Ltd. Is to join Ashgabat 2017 Games as an official partner. 

Along with its sports component, grandiose project Ashgabat 2017 will give an opportunity to demonstrate to the world the commitment of our country to activation of wide economic partnership, consolidation of friendly and business contacts, establishment of the atmosphere of trust and mutual understanding in the region and on the planet including in cultural sphere and tourism industry. 

Particularly, General Director of the Company Ali Al Jarvan mentioned that they are pleased to cooperate with the Executive Committee of the Games Ashgabat 2017 and they are firmly confident that this Games will improve the authority of Turkmenistan in the world sports arena and are proud that they support the country in such excellent initiatives. 

Dragon Oil has big experience of cooperation with Turkmen specialists in oil and gas production on Turkmen shelf of the Caspian Sea. The Company produced around one million tons of oil from marine platforms on Cheleken contractual territory in this year. The company participate in development of marine deposits Jeytun and Jigalybek for almost 17 years. 

As for today, the company spent around 6 billion US dollars in development of these deposits and continues increasing the investments volumes. Just in this year, more than 150 million US dollars were invested in production. 

Making business from the position of socially responsible partner is one of the key objectives of Dragon Oil. At the moment, around two thousand people work at the company’s facilities where 93 percent of them are Turkmen citizens. The Company intentionally invests training programmes and improvement of qualification of local personnel.