Central Asian region possesses huge amount of gas reserves: Turkmenistan – 17.5 trillion m3 , Uzbekistan – 1.6 trillion m3 , Kazakhstan – 1.9 trillion m3 . However, in the land–locked Central Asian context, it is not the amount of resources beneath the ground that determines gas market interactions, but the pipeline politics. Moreover, in an environment of increasing interest for the region’s resources, new and old gas pipelines appear to be competing, rather than complementary in nature. As a result, current energy diversification strategies of the Central Asian exporters basically imply shifting energy markets from old into new customers.