KIEV, Feb. 21 ??“ Sumy Frunze engineering group, one of the leading world's producers of equipment for the gas, oil and chemical industries, launched the Goturdepe gas compressor station, which was built for Turkmenneft Concern.

The company said that the total cost of the station was $120 million.

The contract to build the station was signed in summer 2001, and at that moment only two or three stations were exploited in the CIS.