Afghanistan Voices Readiness To Finance Its Section Of Gas Pipeline Coming From Turkmenistan
Date
10/22/2023 1:09:32 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan, October 22. Afghanistan
has announced the country's readiness to finance the construction
of the Turkmenistan−Afghanistan− Pakistan−India (TAPI) gas pipeline
on its territory, Trend reports.
The Afghan side has also decided to purchase land plots for the
construction of the TAPI gas pipeline.
The TAPI gas pipeline project, passing through the Afghan
provinces of Herat, Farah, Nimroz, Helmand and Kandahar, involves
the creation of thousands of new jobs and will provide Afghanistan
with revenues from the transit of Natural gas to Pakistan and
India.
To date, TAPI Pipeline Company Ltd includes Turkmenistan's
Turkmengaz State Concern, Afghan Gas Enterprise (AGE), Inter State
Gas Systems (Private) Limited (Pakistan) and GAIL (India).
Meanwhile, it is expected that the TAPI gas pipeline will
annually transport 33 billion cubic meters of natural gas along an
1800-kilometer route from the Turkmen Galkynysh, the second largest
gas field in the world, to the Indian city of Fazilka, located near
the border of India and Pakistan.
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