BAKU, Azerbaijan, July 28
By Jeila Aliyeva - Trend:
The countries participating in Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project held a videoconference, Trend reports with reference to Negit-Gas electronic newspaper.
The parties considered the issues of further implementation of this project, as well as discussed its financial and construction aspects.
The participants expressed interest in the implementation of this project and discussed methods of its activation after the end of the pandemic, cause by COVID-19.
The sides highly appreciated the activities of Turkmenistan’s fuel and energy sector in the implementation of the TAPI project, and also stressed the constructive efforts of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov aimed at accelerating the implementation of this project.
The Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipeline (TAPI), also known as Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, is a natural gas pipeline being developed by the Galkynysh – TAPI Pipeline Company Limited with participation of the Asian Development Bank.
The pipeline will transport natural gas from the Galkynysh Gas Field in Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India. Construction on the project started in Turkmenistan on 13 December 2015.
The length of the Turkmen section of the TAPI pipeline, the construction of which was launched in December 2015, will be 205 kilometers (the main operations are carried out on the 120th kilometer). The pipeline will pass through the Afghan cities of Herat and Kandahar (816 kilometers), through the cities of Quetta and Multan across Pakistani territory (819 kilometers), and reach the city of Fazilka in India.
The pipeline’s design capacity is planned to be 33 billion cubic meters of gas per year, and the project’s cost - about $8 billion.
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