The ground-breaking ceremony of the proposed multi-billion dollar 1,735-kilometre gas pipeline connecting Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India will start from December 13. Reported by Turkmenistan Ambassador to Pakistan. The trans-national gas pipeline project known as TAPI, is intended to carry 33 billion cubic meters of gas annually through the Afghan cities of Herat and Kandahar and terminate in Fazilka, a border town in Indias Punjab state.
Turkmenistan Ambassador to Pakistan Atadjan Movlamov said the ground-breaking ceremony of TAPI project will take place in his country on December 13, Radio Pakistan reported. Turkmenistan is said to have the worlds fourth-largest gas reserves, but currently exports almost all of it to China.
About TAPI:-
- The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (also known as Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipeline, TAP or TAPI) is a proposed natural gas pipeline being developed by the Asian Development Bank.
- The pipeline will transport Caspian Sea natural gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India.The abbreviation TAPI comes from the first letters of those countries.
- Proponents of the project see it as a modern continuation of the Silk Road.
- Originally the cost of the pipeline project was reportedly estimated at $7.6 billion, but a more recent estimate was $10 billion.[6] GAIL India may become a part of TAPI project.
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The ______________ projects involved a maze of roads and ports connecting Asia, Europe and Africa.
