{"id":20208,"date":"2023-05-01T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=20208"},"modified":"2023-05-01T20:00:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T20:00:03","slug":"turkmen-gas-arrival-to-pakistan-implementation-of-tapi-or-some-other-arrangement-for-time-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/turkmen-gas-arrival-to-pakistan-implementation-of-tapi-or-some-other-arrangement-for-time-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkmen Gas Arrival to Pakistan – Implementation of TAPI or some other Arrangement for Time Being?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"Islamabad: 30 April 2023 – According to media reports the first consignment of liquefied petroleum gas (LPGP) from Turkmenistan arrived in Pakistan for the first time via Afghanistan’s Kandahar province. Sources say\u00a0 the shipments were made under a deal for LPGP import at the rate of 25% less price than the LPGP being imported from Iran. Here big Question is this is implementation of TAPI gas project or some other arrangement for the time being only?<\/strong><\/em><\/h5>\n

“Officials said the fuel coming from Turkmenistan is much better in quality compared to Iranian gas”.<\/p>\n

The media report said the deal would enhance Pakistan’s energy security by diversifying energy sources. But Editor Tazeen Akhtar says that as long as TAPI project is concerned, no big development on the completion of this project has been noted in the near past. Therefore it can be some other deal and not the implementation on TAPI. Few tankers do not mean the project is started but it can be adopting a substitute process of buying the gas and it would not benefit the public of Pakistan how the TAPI implementation can be useful for the citizens of Pakistan in larger scope and constant manner.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Editor Tazeen Akhtar has been working on Pakistan Turkmenistan Relations and flagship project TAPI in last one decade. He suggests not to attach more expectations until the project TAPI is completed and implemented.<\/p>\n

Kandahar Customs Chief Maulvi Muhammad Hamid Ahmad, meanwhile, confirmed that a 50-tanker cargo shipment had reached Spin Boldak, which would be sent to Pakistan after clearance. He said there would be no hurdle in transportation of gas to Pakistan from Central Asia through Afghanistan transit route.<\/p>\n

Turkmenistan is one of the region’s key natural-gas suppliers, having exported gas to China, Russia, Azerbaijan (via Iran) and Uzbekistan. Pakistan’s main hope is the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. It started being built in December 2015, but the ambitious project is being discussed from scratch in August 2021, following a change of power in Kabul.<\/p>\n

The project is being implemented by TAPI Pipeline Company Ltd (TPCL), which includes state-owned Turkmengaz, the Afghan Gas Corporation, India’s GAIL and Pakistan’s Inter State Gas Systems (Private) Limited.<\/p>\n

The TAPI pipeline will have a total length of about 1,840km with a capacity of 33bn cubic metres of gas per year. The project was previously lobbied for by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which is now awaiting UN recognition of the new government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Islamabad: 30 April 2023 – According to media reports the first consignment of liquefied petroleum gas (LPGP) from Turkmenistan arrived in Pakistan for the first time via Afghanistan’s Kandahar province. Sources say\u00a0 the shipments were made under a deal for LPGP import at the rate of 25% less price than the LPGP being imported from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20210,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20208\/revisions\/20210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}