Täçberdi Tagyýew, anglicized as Tachberdy Tagyyev , is a
Turkmen politician
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, born in 1955 in
Etrek District
Etrek Etraby is a district (''estrap'') in Balkan Province, Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southea ...
,
Balkan Province
Balkan Region () is the westernmost of the five regions of Turkmenistan. Clockwise from north it borders Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan (north); two provinces of Turkmenistan (east), Iran (south), and the Caspian Sea (west). The capital city is Balkana ...
. He was
deputy chairman
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for oil and gas of the
Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan from 2007 to 2009.
In 1977 he graduated from the
Turkmen Polytechnic Institute in engineering in drilling and exploitation in oil and gas deposits. From November 2002 to October 2003 he was Minister of Oil and Gas Industry and Mineral Resources of Turkmenistan and in 2003 was appointed governor (') of Balkan Province.
In 2006 he was appointed general director of the
Turkmenbashy Oil Refinery Complex. In February 2007 was appointed chairman of the
Turkmengas State Concern with rank of minister of state. In 2007, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of Turkmenistan for Oil and Gas and was removed from this post on 13 July 2009 as a result of slow growth in his sector.
[
] From 2009 to 2012 he headed the
Seýdi
Seýdi, formerly Neftezavodsk, is a city in eastern Turkmenistan.
Etymology
Neftezavodsk derives from two Russian words — neft (нефть; oil) and zavod (завод; factory). History
The city was founded in 1973 with construction of the o ...
Oil Refinery. In 2012 Tagyýew was reappointed general director of the Turkmenbashy Oil Refinery Complex but was fired from that position in October 2014 for "serious shortcomings" in his work. Opposition media noted that Tagyýew received "stern reprimands" in each of his official positions.
References
External links
New government of Turkmenistan
1955 births
Living people
People from Balkan Region
Government ministers of Turkmenistan
Oil ministers of Turkmenistan
Vice-presidents of Turkmenistan
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