Myratgeldi Meredov
Myratgeldi Meredov is a Turkmen political figure and mining engineer. He served as Cabinet of Ministers (Turkmenistan) for oil and gas of Turkmenistan from 2018 to 2021.
Biography
Education and early career
This section is translated from the Russian Wikipedia article at :ru:Мередов, Мыратгелди Ресулович with some additions from his official biography.
Meredov was born in 1977 in Ashgabat. Beginning in 1994 he worked as a laboratory technician at the Turkmen State Institute of Architecture and Construction.[1]
In 2000 he graduated from the Turkmen Polytechnic Institute as a mining engineer, and in 2015 from the Academy of Government Service. Upon graduation from the polytechnic institute he worked at the Institute of Oil and Gas of Turkmengas state corporation in various jobs. From 2013 to 2014 he was head of the geology sector in the Division of Oil and Gas Industry of the Cabinet of Ministers (Turkmenistan). From 2014 to 2016 he was deputy minister of oil and gas industry and mineral resources. From January to July 2016 he was minister of oil and gas and chairman of the council of the State Commission on Reserves of Natural Resources of the Cabinet of Ministers. From July 2016 to July 2017 he was chairman of Turkmennebitgasgurluşyk Turkmen Oil and Gas Construction state company. From July to December 2017 he was acting head of Ýöriteleşdirilen gurluşyk-gurnama önümçilik Specialized Construction-Installation Production state company of Turkmengas. From December 2017 to April 2018 he was head of the Cabinet of Ministers Division for Control of Construction of Especially Important and Capital Objects of the Oil and Gas Sector.[1]
Cabinet of Ministers
Meredov was appointed deputy prime minister for oil and gas on 11 April 2018.[2] During his term of office, Meredov oversaw the opening of a new natural gas engineering school in the city of Mary, Turkmenistan|Mary, extended for eight years Turkmenistan's contract with Tatneft, and opened a plant for producing synthetic gasoline from natural gas.[3][4][5] In October 2018 Meredov led a delegation from the oil and gas sector to Brussels to conduct formal talks with the European Union on the possibility of constructing a Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline across the Caspian Sea.[6][7]
Over the term as a deputy prime minister Meredov received five public reprimands for poor work performance. A reprimand in 2019 was linked in the press to failure of the oil and gas sector to meet plan targets.[8] In October 2020, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow provided specifics that were published in state media, to the effect that "growth is not observed in oil extraction, half of which is exported. Processing enterprises do not operate at the appropriate level, and for a long time are used at barely 40%."[9]
Meredov was fired 10 February 2021 for "serious deficiencies committed at work".[10] Opposition media speculated that Meredov's deficiencies were related to instructions President Berdimuhamedow issued to his successor, to "implement new technologies in production, more actively collaborate with international companies in work in gas fields, attract foreign investment in drilling new wells and extraction of residual and hard-to-reach oil reserves...accelerate the pace of construction of the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipeline and seek opportunities for entry into new markets for sales of gas and oil."[11]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 XXV “OIL AND GAS OF TURKMENISTAN - 2020” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE catalog (PDF) (in Russian, Turkmen, and English), Türkmengaz, 2020, pp. 17–18
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Чары Гылыджов, Мыратгелди Мередов и Мамметхан Чакыев назначены вице-премьерами правительства Туркменистана (in русский), «Туркменистан: Золотой век», 11 April 2018
- ↑ В Туркменистане откроется завод по выпуску синтетического бензина (in русский), CentralAsia.news, 15 June 2019
- ↑ В Мары введут в эксплуатацию новую школу ГК «Туркменгаз» (in русский), Gundogar News, 28 February 2020
- ↑ Туркменистан продлил контракт с ПАО «Татнефть» на 8 лет (in русский), CentralAsia.news, 27 November 2020
- ↑ Туркменистан и ЕС обсудили реализацию проекта Транскаспийского газопровода (in русский), CentralAsia.news, 20 October 2018
- ↑ Projects to export gas from Russia, Turkmenistan should only compete on market terms - official, Interfax, 12 August 2019
- ↑ Президент Туркменистана раскритиковал нефтегазовую отрасль (in русский), Fergana, 20 November 2019
- ↑ Президент поручил руководителям ТЭК Туркменистана принять меры для исправления недостатков в работе отрасли (in русский), Nebit-Gaz, 10 October 2020
- ↑ Новые задачи – новые назначения (in русский), «Туркменистан: Золотой век», 11 February 2021
- ↑ Бердымухамедов уволил вице-премьера, главу госинформагентства, министра сельского хозяйства и ряд местных чиновников (in русский), Turkmen.News, 12 February 2021
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