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Progress on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) has been waiting for an oil major to agree to invest in the $7.6 billion 1,800-kilometer project, but with Ashgabat reluctant to sign production-sharing-agreements to enable investors to share in upstream profits, no company appears to be...
Last September, Turkmenistan made an upbeat announcement that it was working on the creation of a consortium for the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline and would even attract new membership in the group as well as chose a leader. Since then, the momentum...
Turkmenistan says it wants to push ahead with an ambitious plan to produce and export gas across Europe. A senior official announced the Ashgabat government would license extraction from the rich Galkynysh field, and hoped to transport it to markets in Europe and Asia. The pipeline is the TAPI project...
Turkmenistan's Petroleum Ministry has today said that it is working on setting up a consortium for the TAPI pipeline, following a Steering Committee working meeting in capital city Ashgabat last night. In a statement on its website, the Ministry said that it was working on the creation of a consortium...
Since the flare-up of the long-standing Caspian Sea border dispute between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, neither side has budged to resolve the matter in order to move forward on joint projects, notably the Trans-Caspian Pipeline. In June, Turkmenistan's Foreign Ministry protested what it deemed "illegal...
Timely response to their ever growing energy needs is key to India’s and Pakistan’s economic and social stability. Until present India, and to a lesser extent Pakistan have been relatively successful in coping with their energy needs. However, if additional energy supplies in particular for...
Which international companies will be tapped by the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline to help its consortium finance and build a $7.6 billion 1,800 kilometer pipeline through war zones -- if the project ever breaks ground? Severe doubts about security prompt analyst James J. Coyle...
Turkmenistan signed gas purchase and sale agreements separately with Pakistan and India to move forward with the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, the State News Agency of Turkmenistan reported May 28. But only a memorandum of understanding on "further development of cooperation...
The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project took a major step forward today with the three nations signing an agreement which will see Turkmenistan provide 33bn cubic metres of gas a year to India and Pakistan for a 30-year period. Turkmenistan's state gas company Turkmengaz...
Turkmenistan is reportedly gearing up to sign a natural gas agreement with Afghanistan, Pakistan and India by the end of this month in a move that would provide the foundation for building a pipeline connecting the four countries despite major security concerns that make the Afghanistan-Pakistan part...
