Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Feb. 13 / Trend H.Hasanov /
Turkmenistan is "interested in construction of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, whose realization will benefit to the peoples of the project participating countries and the whole region, Turkmen President Gurbangulu Berdimuhammedov said at the last governmental meeting, the official Turkmen source reported.
An obstacle in implementation of the project, which has been under discussion for over 15 years, is military operations in Afghanistan. Recently, the Asian Development Bank has making certain efforts to advance this project. The company Penspen has prepared the project's feasibility study.
The pipeline lengths 1,680 km and its design capacity is 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year. The route is expected to begin from the Turkmen Dovletabad field through Herat and Kandahar (Afghanistan), through the Quetta region (Pakistan) and to end in the Fazlaka region on the Indo-Pakistan border.
Earlier Head of Eni, Paolo Scaroni signaled the company's desire to transport gas from Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Iran to Pakistan, India and China.
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