Well, the ones that are proposed may not actually be built. Talk is cheap, basically, and in less-than-democratic countries followup might be absent. But yes, it suggests are certain chummyness.
The biggest incentive to build the new pipelines is EU money for non-russian gas, which could be sourced from Turkmenistan to Kazakhstan without touching Russia with the new pipelines I guess. But the Caspian sea is really deep, idk if its even possible.
These pipeline are capital intensive, so how nations route them signals some political trust (maybe in the past).
Well, the ones that are proposed may not actually be built. Talk is cheap, basically, and in less-than-democratic countries followup might be absent. But yes, it suggests are certain chummyness.
The biggest incentive to build the new pipelines is EU money for non-russian gas, which could be sourced from Turkmenistan to Kazakhstan without touching Russia with the new pipelines I guess. But the Caspian sea is really deep, idk if its even possible.