Editing Economy of Turkmenistan (section)

====Natural gas to gasoline production====
On 28 June 2019, a US$1.7&nbsp;billion factory for producing [[gasoline]] out of natural gas was commissioned in Ovadandepe.  Built by [[Rönesans Holding|Rönesans]] and [[Kawasaki Heavy Industries|Kawasaki]] using technology from [[Haldor Topsøe (company)|Haldor Topsoe]], the factory has a design capacity of 600,000 tonnes of gasoline, 12,000 tonnes of diesel fuel, and 115,000 tonnes of [[liquefied petroleum gas]] per year, produced from 1.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas.<ref name=kawa>{{cite web|url=https://global.kawasaki.com/en/corp/newsroom/news/detail/?f=20190628_1858|title=Kawasaki Launches World's Largest GTG Plant in Turkmenistan|date=28 June 2019}}</ref><ref name=ren>{{cite web|url=https://rhi.ronesans.com/gas-to-gasoline-gtg-plant-completed-turkmenistan/?lang=en|title=Gas-To-Gasoline (GTG) Plant Completed, Turkmenistan|date=July 2019|access-date=2021-03-15|archive-date=2022-03-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220327072512/https://rhi.ronesans.com/gas-to-gasoline-gtg-plant-completed-turkmenistan/?lang=en|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=topsoe>{{cite web|url=https://blog.topsoe.com/worlds-only-natural-gas-to-gasoline-plant-in-operation-in-turkmenistan|title=World's only natural gas-to-gasoline plant in operation in Turkmenistan|date=28 June 2019|first=Svend|last=Ravn}}</ref><ref name=nikkei>{{cite news|url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Kawasaki-Heavy-to-build-world-s-1st-gas-to-gasoline-plant-in-Turkmenistan|title=Kawasaki Heavy to build world's 1st gas-to-gasoline plant in Turkmenistan|date=6 November 2014|first=Yoshifumi|last=Uesaka|publisher=Nikkei Asia}}</ref><ref name=neftegaz>{{cite news|url=https://neftegazru.com/news/worldwide/628322-turkmenistan-and-japan-review-gasoline-production-plant-construction-in-akhal-region/|title=Turkmenistan and Japan review gasoline production plant construction in Akhal region|date=August 31, 2020|first=Jeila|last=Aliyeva|publisher=NeftegazRU.com}}</ref> According to opposition media, as of January 2023 the plant had halted production of export-grade ECO-93 gasoline due to a lack of catalyzers, and was producing only lower-quality gasoline for domestic consumption.<ref>{{citation |url=https://turkmen.news/toplivo-dlya-obmana-turkmenhimiya-ostanovila-rabotu-novogo-zavoda-iz-za-nekhvatki-katalizatorov/ |title=Топливо для обмана. «Туркменхимия» остановила работу нового завода из-за нехватки катализаторов |date=30 January 2023 |publisher=Turkmen.News |language=ru}}</ref>