Turkmenistan has assured Pakistan of its concerns about the TAPI project.
A meeting on the TAPI project was held in Islamabad under the chairmanship of Special Assistant Petroleum Nadeem Babar and the director of TAPI Pipeline Company.
According to a statement issued by the Petroleum Division, the two countries expressed satisfaction with the progress of the project despite Corona.
Turkmen officials say they are in talks with international lenders to build the project, while Pakistani officials say the foundations for the Tapi pipeline project in Pakistan will be laid shortly after pending works are completed. Want.
Turkmenistan plans to begin construction of an oil pipeline to Herat in Afghanistan, while Pakistan has proposed to start work on the project in Afghanistan, as well as in Pakistan.
According to the sources, Pakistan demands that the risk from Afghanistan is not included in the cost of the TAPI project and that the gas delivery point for Pakistan be Chaman instead of the border between Turkmenistan and Afghanistan.
Turkmenistan assured Pakistan that the relevant agreements would address Pakistan's concerns regarding price and point of delivery.
Under the TAPI project, Pakistan will receive 1.32 billion cubic feet of gas per day.
It should be noted that TAPI is a joint Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran gas pipeline project, under which pipeline nine will run from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
The cornerstone of this 10 10 billion megaproject was laid in December 2015, under which the 1,700 km-long gas pipeline was to be completed in two years, but the project has yet to be completed.
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