Tag: Tapi

TAPI pipeline ‘perfect example’ of energy diversification: US

Voicing strong support to the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline, the US has called it a "perfect example" of energy diversification, saying it is a positive...

Turkmens close to gas deal on trans-Afghan pipeline

Turkmenistan plans this week to sign a long-awaited agreement to supply natural gas to Pakistan and India through an ambitious US-backed pipeline that would...

TAPI Soap Opera

Meshrano Jirga, or upper house of parliament of Afghanistan, approved the agreement on a gas pipeline running from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan and...

Tapping into TAPI

The government on Friday authorised Interstate Gas Systems (ISGS) to execute the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) Gas Sale Purchase Agreement (GSPA) with Turkmenistan. It was decided...

Digging out a bargain

Announcing that Kabul and New Delhi have agreed on a transit fee of 49.49 US cents per MMBTU for the proposed Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan...

50 cent’s worth of deadlock

A crucial meeting of the three participating nations to finalize the transit fee for the $ 7.6 billion Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan and India (TAPI)...

2 major US oil companies interested in TAPI pipeline

Two major U.S. oil companies are interested in a four-country pipeline that would ship gas worth billions of dollars from Turkmenistan to India and...

Two US companies interested in TAPI pipeline

Two major US oil companies are interested in a four-country pipeline that would ship gas worth billions of dollars from Turkmenistan to India and...

Construction of TAPI gas pipeline should be accelerated: Berdimuhammadov

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhammadov has urged newly appointed heads of the country's oil and gas sector to accelerate implementation of Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas...

Architects of the endgame

They’re all ‘coping with frogs’ The two-day trilateral summit of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran, which concluded in Islamabad on Friday, 17 February 2012, has exposed...

Mending fences

Trilateral summit The Americans, one assumes, wouldn’t be all too pleased. Nor would the Saudis. The Afghan and Pakistani presidents sitting together was all well...

Good pipeline, bad pipeline

The country is in the middle of an energy crisis. The committed demand of the natural gas is around 6 billion cubic feet while...

Afghanistan briefs Pakistan on security measures for TAPI pipeline

Afghanistan on Thursday briefed Pakistan on its security plan for $7.6 billion Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan and India (TAPI) pipeline project, initiation of which hinges...

Pakistan, India discuss transit fee for TAPI project

Governments of Pakistan and India discussed the modalities of TAPI gas pipeline, including the transit fee and the signing of Gas Sale Purchase Agreement...

India, Pakistan report progress on TAPI gasline

India and Pakistan said on Wednesday they were closer to an agreement on a pipeline to import gas from Turkmenistan that would signal a...

Sifting skepticism from optimism

On 14th November 2011, Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow along with Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gillani signed five agreements and memoranda of understandings (MoUs) at...

Expect the best… Shani’s on our side

The recent mutual agreement between Pakistan and Turkmenistan for Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline is not just an agreement; it is the result of the...