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Afghanistan signs 30-year gas pipeline deal
The Afghan government said it signed a 30-year gas sales and purchase agreement for a multilateral pipeline planned from Turkmenistan.
Parties to the planned Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline met last week in Ashgabat for a regular meeting of the pipeline’s steering committee.
The Afghan Foreign Affairs Ministry announced Saturday it signed a 30-year deal with the Turkmen government for the pipeline, Afghanistan’s online Khaama Press reports.
Afghanistan will receive 17.6 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year during the first 10 years of the pipeline’s operation. Its allocation from the pipeline would increase gradually to 52 billion cubic feet per year in the following decades.
The report said delegates to the meeting in Ashgabat agreed to a joint consortium operating in coordination with the Asian Development Bank to help steer the company forward. It would consist of energy companies from pipeline member states and would come into being formally by the end of the year.
The Afghan report said the pipeline would generate $500 million in sales income per year for the Afghan government.
TAPI is seen as a rival to a similar project planned from Iran.
5 Comments on "Afghanistan signs 30-year gas pipeline deal"
noobtube on Mon, 15th Jul 2013 11:06 pm
He was absolutely right.
The whole Afghanistan “WAR” was all about building a pipeline through Afghanistan, from Turkmenistan.
People still believe in fairy tales like a Social Security Trust Fund, American exceptionalism (the rules don’t apply to me), and the War on Terror.
The United States is stupidity, defined.
How long can stupidity continue before the inevitable stupid results.
The clock is ticking.
Plantagenet on Mon, 15th Jul 2013 11:47 pm
Nice to hear Afghanistan will benefit from the planned NG pipeline. Obama’s plan to bring the benefits of modernity to Afghanistan is bearing fruit!
BillT on Tue, 16th Jul 2013 2:57 am
Much of the gas will go on to Pakistan and India. That is, IF it ever gets built, and IF it can survive going through 3 rebellious countries.
pete on Tue, 16th Jul 2013 3:11 am
Sorry Plant wrong again, with the pullout of most of the troops and the death of Karzi’s heroin drug dealer brother, he’s got no power on either side of the coin. Next the Taliban said no to pipelines along time ago (aprox. just months before 911). Karzi had better collect his laundred (Armani suits) bribe money and run for the west. The Taliban will rule
Shaved Monkey on Tue, 16th Jul 2013 3:45 am
Next step will be either topple Iran and put in a puppet before they complete their pipelinfor wait i until its built first topple them and connect Qatars gas to it.
http://www.transitionistas.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/TAPI-and-IPI-Pipelines.gif
Lots of cheap fuel for the third world set India and Pakistan up as manufacturing competition to China.
The West needs exponential growth and thrives on cheap labour.