Kabul to host TAPI project 21st summit

Kabul will host the 21st summit of The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Natural Gas Pipeline (TAPI) Project.

Ministers of four country members of this project, Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India will attend the summit.

Afghanistan foreign ministry announces the good news for Afghans the import of natural gas to Afghanistan and its transfer to India and Pakistan.

(TAPI) Project is an economic program which will make Afghanistan the owner 30 years gas.

Russia and China are the countries that showed interest for this program.

But one question remain that does Afghanistan have the capacity for daily absorption of 1400 cubic meter gas?

Earlier, The US has also welcomed the decision of establishing the ambitious TAPI gas pipeline project, a joint venture company for the transportation of up to 33 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

The Turkmenistan – Afghanistan – Pakistan – India (TAPI) gas pipeline project aims to bring natural gas from the Yoloten and adjacent gas fields in Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. The ADB is acting as the facilitator and coordinator for the project.

ADB funded a feasibility study of the project in 2004, which was conducted by a British consulting firm PENSPEN.

The feasibility study, proposed to lay a 56-inch diameter 1,680 KM pipeline with design capacity of 3.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per annum (Bcfd) from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan and Pakistan up to Pak-India border. The capital cost of the project was originally estimated at US$ 3.3 billion, which has been revised to US $ 7.6 billion (2008), using the current steel and construction costs.
Reported by Wahid Navesa