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Pakistani Oil Minister Jam Kamal Khan underlined his country`s thirst for energy supplies. adding that the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (also known as Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipeline or TAPI) project can never replace imports of gas from Iran.
`Completion of TAPI project has been delayed due to insecurity in Afghanistan.` Kamal Khan told FNA on Tuesday.
`No Project will replace another one and given Pakistan`s need to energy. TAPI cannot replace gas imports from Iran.` he added.
Kamal Khan also referred to his country`s imports of LNG from Qatar. and said this also cannot replace imports of gas from Iran because Pakistan is in need of much more energy supplies.
The Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (also known as Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipeline or TAPI) is a proposed natural gas pipeline being developed by the Asian Development Bank. Expected to be completed around 2017. the pipeline will transport Caspian Sea natural gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India. Estimated cost of the TAPI pipeline project is reported at $7.6 billion.
Also. Iran and Pakistan officially inaugurated the construction of the border part of the multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline project in March. 2013.
The project kicked off in a ceremony attended by former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his former Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari at the two countries` shared border region in Iran`s Southeastern city of Chabahar.
The 2700-kilometer long pipeline was to supply gas for Pakistan and India which are suffering a lack of energy sources. but India has evaded talks. In 2011. Iran and Pakistan declared they would finalize the agreement bilaterally if India continued to be absent in the meeting.
Iran has already built 900 kilometers of the pipeline on its own soil and is waiting for the 700-kilometer Pakistani side of the pipeline to be constructed.
The IP pipeline is designed to help Pakistan overcome its growing energy needs at a time when the country of over 180 million people is grappling with serious energy shortages.
According to the project proposal. the pipeline begins from Iran`s Assalouyeh Energy Zone in the South and stretches over 1.100 km through Iran. In Pakistan. it will pass through Baluchistan and Sindh but officials now say the route may be changed if China agrees to the project.
