Tapi Meeting In Dubai: Consortium to review progress
Through the pipeline Pakistan and India would be provided 1.325 bcfd gas each
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ISLAMABAD:
The four-nation consortium, Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI), will be meeting in Dubai in June to review progress on the multi-billion dollar gas pipeline project and work on its financial close. “TAPI parties are planning to meet in Dubai next month to review the project status and work on the financial close of the project,” Inter State Gas Systems (ISGS) Managing Director Mobin Saulat told APP, while sharing updates on the project. Under the project, he said, a 56-inch diameter 1,680km pipeline, having capacity to flow 3.2 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) gas, would be laid from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and Pakistan up to Pak-India border, which was scheduled to be completed in the year 2020. Through the pipeline, he said, Pakistan and India would be provided 1.325 bcfd gas each and Afghanistan a share of 0.5 bcfd gas.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2017.
The four-nation consortium, Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI), will be meeting in Dubai in June to review progress on the multi-billion dollar gas pipeline project and work on its financial close. “TAPI parties are planning to meet in Dubai next month to review the project status and work on the financial close of the project,” Inter State Gas Systems (ISGS) Managing Director Mobin Saulat told APP, while sharing updates on the project. Under the project, he said, a 56-inch diameter 1,680km pipeline, having capacity to flow 3.2 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) gas, would be laid from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and Pakistan up to Pak-India border, which was scheduled to be completed in the year 2020. Through the pipeline, he said, Pakistan and India would be provided 1.325 bcfd gas each and Afghanistan a share of 0.5 bcfd gas.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2017.