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Pakistan to discuss $2.5b pipeline project with Turkmenistan
ISLAMABAD — A high-level Pakistani team left here yesterday for Turkmenistan to further discuss the $2.5 billion proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) pipeline project, officials said.
In their two-day talks, the delegation will review the developments on TAP and push their counterparts to expedite the 1800km pipeline which will transmit gas from Daulatabad Gas Fields to Pakistan.
The delegation is being headed by Amanullah Jadoon, Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources. The delegation had to leave for Turkemenistan on Sunday, but later the schedule was changed.
The team also comprise Prime Minister’s Advisor on Energy, Mukhtar Ahmed, Secretary Petroleum, Ahmed Waqar, Joint Secretary Development, Jahangir Khan and Managing Director, Interstate Gas Company Limited (IGCL), Hassan Nawab.
Energy experts have warned Pakistan of gas shortage by 2010 and President Gen Pervez Musharraf has directed the concerned officials to speed up the efforts to secure energy for the country’s growing industry to sustain the ongoing ratio of economic development.
After their two-day talks in Ashkabad, the Pakistani team will arrive in New Delhi and would hold talks with the newly appointed Indian oil minister, Murli Deora, who replaced Mani Shankar Aiyar.
The delegation will asses the new minister’s approach towards the mega TAP project and submit a report to the prime minister upon their arrival here.
Officials said that the two countries would also hold talks on multi billion dollar Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project and its feasibility on the face of the US resistance to the project.
“Pakistan is facing US opposition on the proposed IPI project, therefore, we have suggested to speed up some other options,” an official in the Ministry for Petroleum and Natural Resources said.
The other options despite being very costly are deemed as safe and included pipelines from Qatar and Turkmenistan, he added.
During his recent talks with Iranian Deputy Petroleum Minister, Najeed Hosseinian, Jadoon had said that IPI pipeline project would promote regional cooperation and would open up new avenues of interaction for the mutual advantages.
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