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He added that currently five foreign companies develop oil and gas fields in Turkmenistan under production-sharing agreements . At the moment , he said , foreign companies ' share does not exceed 8 percent . Here diplomatic and economic gains can be appreciated by the belligerent under the watchful eye of the coalition partners . At the conclusion of a major oil and gas conference in Ashgabat last week , on September 26 , Oil , Gas and Mineral Resources Minister Tacherdy Tagyev made the startling announcement that Turkmenistan intended to raise the share of foreign companies in the country 's overall gas and oil output from its current level at roughly 8 percent to 50 percent by 2005 . The Turkmen statistics note a dynamic increase in wages paid by the state-run enterprises and consumer cooperative societies , which has led to a reduction in the difference between the salaries of public sector workers and the staff of joint ventures and foreign companies . " With the purpose of creation of a uniform database for all the projects and programmes of foreign technical , financial and humanitarian aids and grants , given by foreign states , international organizations , financial institutions , foreign companies , public associations , religious organizations , physical persons of foreign states , for any departments and ministries of Turkmenistan or any other recipients of the technical , financial , humanitarian aid or grant , the President of Turkmenistan has signed this resolution , " says the opening paragraph of the decree . After President Niyazov criticized the heads of the regional administrations for the breakdown of the plan for gathering cotton wool in the middle of October , the administrative pressure on people increased . That seems to give it a further sense and possibility of impermanence that would make more or less a mockery of the enormous sacrifices and skills displayed by the Air Force and the NATO elements , of which the United States was by far the strongest and the largest . Over 115 motorbikes used for smuggling tanks with petrol into neighbouring countries were seized after a special raid on farms in four border districts in Dasoguz Region [ in northern Turkmenistan ] by Internal Affairs agencies .