TAPI Gas Pipeline

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So be it iranian gas or turkmen, we have to rely on pakistan to carry our gas at our border. Just more reasons, how much is not having acess to POK is hurting india. We could have no single pipe line built when our economy is all hungry.

Turkmen gas for Pakistan and India



Turkmenistan and Afghanistan have signed a framework agreement to build the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline (TAPI) running through Pakistan and into India.



The 1,680 km long pipeline is expected to come online in 2015 and pump 33 billion cubic metres of natural gas a year. Experts voiced concerns, however, as the pipeline will be snaked through a troubled region on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The agreement was signed on Monday in Kabul at a Turkmen-Afghan intergovernmental commission meeting. The document was signed by Bairamgeldy Nedirov, Turkmenistan's Oil and Gas Industry and Mineral Resources minister, and Vahidulla Shahrani, minister for Mines and Mining of Afghanistan. This is the first concrete document in the project's 15-year history. The new pipeline, stretching 1,680 km, will link the Dovletabad gas field in Turkmenistan with the Fazilka settlement on the Indian-Pakistani border, running across Afghanistan. The pipeline, at intake, will have 33 billion cubic metres of capacity a year, and at exit in India, 17-18. If all goes as planned and construction begins this year, TAPI will become operational in 2015. Turkmen officials plan to visit Islamabad and Delhi over the next few weeks to sign similar agreements there.

Talks on the gas pipeline's route from Central Asia to India's growing natural gas market began back in 1995. There was little progress, however, until 2005, when the Asian Development Bank gave a grant to finance a feasibility and economic study for the project. All four partners signed a framework agreement in 2008 that confirmed their readiness to take part in TAPI. It was not until 2010, however, that real work began, with Turkmenistan playing a key role. On 13 August, Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov told his ministers to sign all the necessary agreements before the end of the year. In a telephone conversation with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, they agreed to discuss TAPI behind the scenes at the UN General Assembly meeting in September.

Meanwhile, experts are sceptical. Mikhail Krutikhin, a partner of RusEnergy, a Russian oil and gas industry analytical company, says that political risks are too high, since the proposed route runs through Kandahar, the troubled Pakistan province partly controlled by Taliban fighters, and crosses into an unstable, Pashtun-controlled area of the country. Moreover, relations between Delhi and Islamabad remain strained. "There were a few times when it seemed the project would get off the ground, but every time serious investors, first and foremost Americans, withdrew because of the significant political risks involved. Even now things haven't improved one bit," Mr Krutikhin said. He sees political motives behind the TAPI project's recent revival. "By getting this project in gear, the participants want to urge the United States to step up its efforts to restore order in Afghanistan," he said.

Scepticism regarding whether there are sufficient resources is still another murky cloud looming over TAPI. In 2004, DeGolyer & MacNaughton, an American petroleum consulting firm, audited Turkmenistan's natural gas reserves, including those in Dovletabad. The report has never been published, yet the company's representatives and Turkmen officials have stated repeatedly that the reserves would suffice for exports to various markets. Dovletabad, until recently, remained the largest resource base for Turkmen natural gas exports to Russia. A long-term Russian-Turkmen agreement signed in 2003 provisioned for 2010 exports of 80-90 billion cubic metres. The contract, however, was amended following a gas conflict in December 2009, therefore limiting Russia to purchasing just 10 billion cubic metres of Turkmen natural gas in 2010. Accordingly, if Gazprom does not buy more natural gas over the next few years – which the Russian monopoly seems reluctant to do with there being unstable demand in Europe – Turkmenistan could just as well sell its gas to China and Iran, using the recently built pipelines, while India's hopes for buying Turkmen natural gas don't seem out of the question either.

Turkmen gas for Pakistan and India | Oye! Times
 

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This proposal has been floating for years. Two problems Afghanistan, Pakistan.
 

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This was being promoted by the Americans, but now Obama on full reverse gear this project is as good as dead and buried 6 feet under
 

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Interest in TAPI pipeline project revives

As the West steps up efforts to enforce sanctions on Iran, the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan- India (TAPI) gas pipeline project, a competitor to the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, has come back to life.

"With gas prices falling, the Steering Committee for the TAPI project has woken up. An Indian team to discuss technical issues has just returned to the country," said government sources.

"There is some smart gas diplomacy being done by Turkmenistan. They have been talking about pipelines with Europe, but are keen on India. Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov also made this observation during his visit here in May this year," they added.

India has also received feelers from the Turkmen President for a summit on the issue. This will be preceded by a meeting of the Oil Ministers of the four participating countries. But before that, officials would have to sort out several issues, including the one raised by Pakistan about securing the pipeline.

"It is a great asset from the point of view of energy security. But the issue of security will add up to the cost," said the sources. The issue of security is of concern to the planners because the pipeline's proposed route is near south-west of Afghanistan, where Taliban is active.

The talks on security will be followed by discussions on the mechanics of construction, a global tender and a business model. These aspects will be grandfathered by the Asian Development Bank, which is taking keen interest in the project. "We have to continue talks on this, because the IPI seems stalled," the official said.
 

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Turkmenistan guarantees gas, Pakistan security for trans-Afghan pipeline

ASHGABAT, November 14 (Itar-Tass) -- Turkmenistan guarantees gas and Pakistan pledges security of the prospective trans-Afghan pipeline TAPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India).

The promises were made at the eighth meeting of the TAPI working group, which ended in Ashgabat on Friday. The Pakistani delegation presented an action plan, which would keep safe the future gas pipeline. All the four partner states attended the meeting together with a delegation of the Asian Development Bank that sponsors the project, the Turkmen government press office said.

The largest gas deposit in Turkmenistan, South Yolotan, will be the source of raw materials for the prospected facility. Deposit reserves were certified in 2008 by a British company and presented by Turkmenistan at the eleventh meeting of the pipeline managing committee in September 2010.

Ashgabat said in October that the appraised reserves grew from 14 to 21 trillion cubic meters in a survey done by Turkmen geologists.

The working group coordinated drafts of an intergovernmental agreement on TAPI project, a framework agreement on the gas pipeline and gas contracts with Turkmenistan. The documents will be presented for signing at the summit of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India due in Ashgabat in December 2010.

There will be one more meeting of the working group and the 12th meeting of the TAPI managing committee before the summit.

The negotiations have been on for over 15 years. The pipeline cost is estimated at up to $7.6 billion. The pipeline will have the annual capacity of 33 billion cubic meters.
 

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Afghanistan says confident can secure TAPI gas pipeline

KABUL, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Afghanistan will secure a planned international gas pipeline through the Taliban heartland by burying sections underground and paying local communities to guard it, the mining minister said on Wednesday.

Wahidullah Shahrani also said he was confident the project -- valued at $3.3 billion and which would run from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan to India (TAPI) -- could secure international funding.

"This huge project is very important to Afganistan," Shahrani told a news conference in the capital, Kabul.

"We will be earning a transit fee of hundreds of millions of dollars each year, it will create tremendous job opportunities for the people of Afghanistan during and after the construction, and the major population centres along the pipeline will benefit from the gas supplies," he said.

Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has ordered that the project be completed and operational by 2014, one of Shahrani's aides told Reuters, so the four countries are working at top speed to complete preliminaries before seeking investors.

Berdymukhamedov has also provided audited studies of the gas fields which would supply the pipeline, to reassure investors and the governments involved that there will be enough supply.

Analysts, however, say the agreement is still at a preliminary stage and that security challenges in Afghanistan and the tensions between India and Pakistan remain an obstacle.

The project was originally mooted in the early 1990s, but has been stalled by years of conflict and instability in Afghanistan.

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Turkmenistan, holder of the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves, is actively looking to diversify energy sales from its traditional market, Russia, and is courting investors from the West, China and other Asian countries.

The four countries the pipeline passes through signed the framework of an agreement on Monday. [nSGE68J0M0]

They will have three or four meetings before the end of the year to bash out technical details, and the heads of government of all countries will meet in December to sign an intergovernment agreement giving political impetus to the deal, Shahrani said.

Energy-hungry Pakistan is pushing hard for a quick implementation of the long-delayed project. [nSGE68K0B9]

Turkmenistan has previously estimated the cost of the project at $3.3 billion, with initial capacity to transport 33 billion cubic metres a year over nearly 2,000 km (1,250 miles), including 735 km across Afghanistan and another 800 km through Pakistan.

The pipeline route takes it through areas of extreme instability. In Afghanistan it would snake from western Herat, near the border with Iran, through the southern Taliban heartlands of Helmand and Kandahar.

The central government has only a tenuous grip on much of this territory, despite the presence of tens of thousands of foreign troops meant to bolster security.

But Shahrani said he was confident Afghanistan could secure the pipeline. Pakistan, Afghanistan and India are all hungry for more energy but are at times uneasy neighbours.

"The government will provide security along the line, which in most places will be 2 metres underground," Shahrani said.

The four countries, which are currently being advised by the Asian Development Bank, aim to set up a consortium of international investors. They are currently working with a transaction adviser, Shahrani's aide said.
 

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Any pipe line passing through Pak is a security risk. Pak can turn off the tap any time and hold India to ransom. Even otherwise its transit charges would be sky high.
 

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TAPI gas sale deal likely by end-July - statement


NEW DELHI | Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:09pm IST


NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The governments of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India are aiming to sign by July 31 a United States-backed deal to purchase gas worth billions of dollars from Turkmen reserves, a statement said on Thursday.

Oil Minister S. Jaipal Reddy said the pipeline, which is estimated to cost $7.6 billion, was expected to be completed by 2016 but added pricing had yet to be discussed.

"No deliberation on price at this stage because it is a bilateral issue," Reddy said.

The "TAPI" pipeline would transport gas over Afghan soil to consumers in India and Pakistan. But building the pipeline through some of Afghanistan's most volatile regions presents a major challenge, adding to the project's other hurdles such as gas pricing and transit fees.

Parts of the 735 kilometre Afghan stretch will be buried underground as a precaution against attacks, and local communities will be paid to guard it, Afghan Mines Minister Wahidullah Shahrani said in September.

Financing will also be key. Turkmenistan has previously estimated the cost of the project at $3.3 billion, although various estimates have costs running as high as $10 billion. The project is backed by the Manila-based Asian Development Bank.

An Indian official said the partner countries had whittled down their differences and only a few issues such as gas pricing and transit fees remained to be resolved.

Turkmenistan traditionally sends its gas north to Soviet-era master Russia but is becoming an increasingly important supplier to China, Iran and Europe. India and Pakistan, via the TAPI pipeline, would also offer potentially large new export markets.

A former Soviet republic on top of the world's fourth-largest natural gas reserves, Turkmenistan plans to triple gas output to 230 billion cubic metres (bcm) over the next 20 years. With a population of only 5 million, it will export nearly 80 percent.

It expects the pipeline, which will run from the Dovletabad field but may later incorporate gas from the massive South Iolotan deposit now under development, to have initial annual capacity of 33 billion cubic metres.

India and Pakistan have expressed interest in buying up to 70 bcm annually, and the pipeline's capacity could be expanded.

India, Asia's third-largest economy, relies on imports for 70 percent of its huge energy needs. Natural gas currently accounts for about 10 percent of its energy supplies and much of this is imported.


http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/04/28/idINIndia-56637620110428
 

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I hope this TAPI file gets buried in the deepest recesses of some babu's office, and never surfaces again. :frusty:
 

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Per the costs of the Nords Pipeline, an undersea pipeline from Iran or Oman to India will be a $10 billion investment. TAPI pipeline will be at least 8 billion of which less than 20% of the cost will be shared by Pakistan. After that we have to forever keep paying them transit fee. How does it make any sense to go for it?

Further Iran and Oman are far more friendlier countries and the security risk of the TAPI has not even been considered. The Pukes can switch it off anytime they choose and we can do nothing.
 

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If they cut off our gas, we cut off their water.

That aside, any government which goes through with this will fall coming elections. Though, the UPA government may still go ahead with it, because I believe they know that they will be falling in the next elections anyways, TAPI or no TAPI.
 

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If they cut off our gas, we cut off their water.

That aside, any government which goes through with this will fall coming elections. Though, the UPA government may still go ahead with it, because I believe they know that they will be falling in the next elections anyways, TAPI or no TAPI.
They don't even have to switch it off directly, they'll claim some "non state actors" blew the pipeline.
 

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If they cut off our gas, we cut off their water.

That aside, any government which goes through with this will fall coming elections. Though, the UPA government may still go ahead with it, because I believe they know that they will be falling in the next elections anyways, TAPI or no TAPI.
Impossible sir. Turning off water will take 5 years of water diversion projects. Turning off gas will take 5 seconds. TAPI is a stupid stupid idea.
 

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India stepping on the gas to finalise TAPI pact - Hindustan Times

India is speeding up its efforts to sign an agreement for importing gas through the US-backed $10-billion Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline.

At the same time, it is going slow on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) project that would have moved huge quantities of gas
from the south Pars field in the Persian Gulf into India. Some government officials see this as an indication that India is toeing the US line and reducing its energy dependence on the sanctions-hit Iran.

The urgency on the part of the government is palpable. The petroleum ministry recently wrote to the National Security Council (NSA) secretary Lata Reddy on April 2 that "There is an urgency for signing the gas sales and purchase agreement (GSPA) under the TAPI gas pipeline project".

A cabinet note is ready, and when it gets the nod, India will sign the GSPA for importing gas under this project, the petroleum ministry officials confirmed.

Both the IPI and TAPI projects have been under discussion since the '90s.

"While it is difficult to say if TAPI will see the light of the day, but IPI has certainly been put on the backburner," a senior official said on condition of anonymity. "Stepping up efforts on the TAPI project is a clear indication that New Delhi is following the US' anti-Teheran stand."

India and other south Asian nations have already reduced their import dependence on Iranian crude oil by over 20%.

India has slashed its import plans from 18.1 million tonnes of crude oil to 14 mtpa.

"Both IPI and TAPI were high on the agenda of UPA-I and we cannot allow outside powers to determine our economic requirements, our foreign policy priorities or our national security needs," said former petroleum minister Mani Shankar Aiyar.

On its part, the US has welcomed India's renewed interest in TAPI. Senior advisor in the US department of state Daniel Stein said at the 7th Asia Gas partnership summit here recently: "TAPI fits into the US government's Eurasian energy policy meant to assist Europe and Asia in their quest for energy security."
 

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Cabinet approves plan for Turkmenistan gas imports

NEW DELHI: Cabinet on Thursday allowed state-run gas-firm GAIL (India) Ltd to sign a gas purchase agreement with Turkmenistan's national oil firm, for supplies from a planned multi-national pipeline, a government statement said.

The proposed 1,700-km (1,056-mile) Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India line (TAPI) will have a capacity to carry 90 million cubic metres a day (mcmd) gas for a 30-year period and will be operational in 2018, the statement said.

India and Pakistan would get 38 mcmd each while the remaining 14 mcmd will be supplied to Afghanistan, it said.

Turkmenistan, which holds more than 4 percent of the world's natural gas reserves, is hosting a meeting next week with participants in the US-backed TAPI project to link Turkmen gas fields with India.

Petroleum Minister S Jaipal Reddy is scheduled to lead a delegation to Turkmenistan to sign the agreement on May 23-24. India has nominated state-run GAIL for the purchase of gas.

The pipeline route, particularly the 735-km (450-mile) Afghan leg, presents significant security challenges and will require Pakistan and India to agree on price and other aspects. Participants must also secure funding for the project.

"The provisions of the GSPA (Gas Sale Purchase Agreement) have been structured to protect India's commercial interests as India is at the tail end of the pipeline," the statement said, without elaborating further.

"Transit fee and security aspect have been settled," a government source, who did not wish to be identified told reporters after the cabinet meeting.

Separately, an oil ministry official said that the transit fee for the gas has been fixed at about 50 cents per million British thermal units (mmBtu).

The TAPI pipeline is estimated to cost about $10-12 billion, while development of the gas field may cost about an additional $10 billion, said Daniel D Stein, senior energy adviser at the U.S. Department of State said in a presentation in March.

India, Asia's third largest oil consumer, imports about 80 percent of its oil needs while falling local gas output has forced it to buy costly liquefied natural gas.

The planned pipeline will help India and Pakistan diversify their gas supply, while Turkmenistan, a former Soviet republic, wants to triple annual gas exports to 180 billion cubic metres by 2030, looking beyond its traditional partner Russia to wider export markets.

Turkmenistan aims to supply natural gas from its Galkynysh field, better known by its previous name, South Iolotan, to Pakistan and India. British auditor Gaffney, Cline & Associates has said the gas field is the world's second-largest.
Cabinet approves plan for Turkmenistan gas imports - The Economic Times
 

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The proposed 1,680-km TAPI will have a capacity to carry 90 mcmd gas for a 30-year period and will be operational in 2018

Often referred to as the "peace pipeline" because some of the countries that it passes through have an adversarial relationship, the deal involving the four countries is expected to be inked by the end of the month.

Not only will the investment address India's urgent need to boost gas supplies, it will also help underline its growing economic linkages with Afghanistan, and more recently with Pakistan. It could, however, potentially cause some diplomatic friction with Iran as India has abandoned a similarly ambitious project with that country and opted instead for a Central Asia project that has been backed by the US.

"This is India preparing for the future. It signals that we are there to take advantage of the energy resources of Central Asia," said Kanwal Sibal, a former foreign secretary. "So far, Turkmenistan has been selling gas to China. This shows that they would like to diversify their customer base and include us as well. It also signals that we are looking at Afghanistan in the long term."

A person familiar with the development concurred, "The success of the pipeline could, in the long term, make a case for Pakistan to look at India differently and engage with India economically, giving them greater stakes in the peace in the region," he said.

Pakistani diplomats declined to make any immediate comment.

C. Uday Bhaskar, an analyst with South Asia Monitor, a Delhi-based think tank, said, "This is the first major success from Central Asia. It will be a major addition to India's energy basket."

The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project is expected to be about 1,680km in length. Of this, 144km will be in Turkmenistan, 735km in Afghanistan, and 800km in Pakistan, bringing it to the India border. Of the 90 million standard cubic metres per day (mscmd) of gas that will be pumped through it, India and Pakistan will get 38 mscmd each and Afghanistan the remaining 14 mscmd.

The pipeline is expected to be operational in 2018 and supply gas over a 30-year period. According to an industry expert, the landed cost of gas transported through the TAPI pipeline in India is expected to be around $10 per million British thermal units after transit fees are paid to Pakistan.

Currently, India requires 176 mscmd of gas, of which a little more than one-sixth is imported. By 2020, the country might need about 400 mscmd, according to industry estimates.

The oil ministry had said in October that by 2016-17 alone, demand could go up to 473 mscmd and cross the 600 mscmd mark by 2021-22. Out of this, 210 mscmd is likely to be produced locally and the remainder may have to be imported, according to oil ministry estimates.

The source of the gas to be routed through the TAPI pipeline is the South Yoloten Osman field, recently renamed Galkynysh, which has been certified by a reputed international consultant to be holding proven recoverable gas reserves of 16 trillion cubic metres, according to a government release.

Both Afghanistan and Pakistan have made commitments regarding the safety and security of the pipeline through the Inter-Governmental Agreement and the Gas Purchase Framework Agreement signed among the four countries in December 2010.

The pipeline, proposed in the early 1990s, has been delayed by political and economic hurdles. The main issue has been security because it passes through Afghanistan and Balochistan in Pakistan, both considered to be unstable areas where the project may face the risk of sabotage. India joined the project in April 2008.

The Asian Development Bank is the lead partner in the project that's expected to involve an investment of $7.6 billion.

Some experts were sceptical about the project.

"It is doubtful whether the TAPI project will eventually take off. Turkmenistan has committed most of its energy resources to other countries, including China, so there is every likelihood that the eventual supply will be much lower than what is being promised now," said Lydia Powell, an energy analyst with New Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation.

The other pipeline project India has been involved with has been delayed over price and transportation fees that India would have to pay Pakistan. Talks on the 2,300km Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline started in 1995, but with India clinching the civilian nuclear agreement with the US, the process slowed.

Iran and Pakistan decided to go ahead with the project without India, and have even extended a partnership offer to China. The last trilateral meeting on the IPI pipeline involving Iran, Pakistan and India was held in July 2007.

Admitting that TAPI would isolate Iran, Sibal said, "The United States has been pushing this deal."

However, the government refuted this argument.

"This does not mean that we are ignoring our ties with Iran, a country we need for our energy security. TAPI was the project we have been negotiating for long. We are continuing our negotiations and engagement with Iran for bettering our relations," said E. Ahamed, minister of state for external affairs.
Cabinet nod for $7.6 bn TAPI gas pipeline - Economy and Politics - livemint.com
 

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India to sign GSPA for Turkmenistan Gas on Wednesday; landed price of TAPI gas expected around $11.5/unit

NEW DELHI: India is expected to sign an agreement with Turkmenistan this week that will secure 38 million standard cubic meters per day gas supply from the Central Asian country at around $11.5/unit, government officials said.

Oil minister Jaipal Reddy is visiting Turkmenistan on Tuesday to sign the gas sale purchase agreement (GAPA) this week, officials said.

The GSPA would pave way for construction of $7.5 billion trans-national pipeline, which would also supply gas to Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Turkmen gas would be significantly cheaper than liquefied natural gas (LNG) sold in spot market, government and industry officials said.

Gas-starved India pays a spot price of about $16 a unit for LNG. Petronet LNG has recently contracted LNG import from Australia's Gorgon project at $15.8 per unit while Gail's 20-year contract with US' Sabine Pass works out to be around $10-11 per unit.

The cabinet approved the 1,680-km gas pipeline project last week. ET had first reported on Mar 29 that the cabinet's approval would pave way for India signing a GSPA with Turkmenistan.

"At the current market price, the landed price of gas would be little more than $11/unit. But price will fluctuate as it expected to be linked with international fuel oil rates," one official said requesting anonymity.

India, which was at the end of the 1,680 km-long pipeline, was worried about landed cost of gas and wanted to invest in the project only if the Turkmen gas was comparable with long-term LNG deals.

India plans to import 38 mmscmd gas from the central Asian country, which will be more than the current output of the country's biggest gas fields in the D6 block.

India has also finalized transit fee and other related matters with Afghanistan and Pakistan, as the pipeline would cross their borders. Pakistan has already assured that it would charge a uniform transit fee, government officials said.

The GSPA will be executed by state-run gas utility Gail, which is India's nominee for the $7.5-billion pipeline project. The project is also known as TAPI pipeline, representing initials of four partner countries.

After GSPA is signed, four partners would constitute a consortium by 2013 that would build and operate the pipeline. TAPI project would be completed by 2016, officials said.

Officials said it was already decided among partners that security of the pipeline would be ensured by the countries on the way.

Turkmenistan has agreed to supply 90 mmscmd gas to the three consumers. India and Pakistan will get about 38 mmscmd gas each while balance will go to Afghanistan. The proposed pipeline will start from the Dauletabad gas field in southeast Turkmenistan and after 145 km stretch in the country enter Afghanistan. After traversing 735 km in Afghanistan and 800 km in Pakistan, it will cross into India.
India to sign GSPA for Turkmenistan Gas on Wednesday; landed price of TAPI gas expected around $11.5/unit - The Economic Times
 

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