Gwadar Port: Pakistan, China all set to develop master plan

[Edevelop]

ISLAMABAD: In a strategic move, Pakistan and China are set to make headway towards developing a master plan for Gwadar Port as part of an economic corridor that envisages investment of $12 billion by Beijing.

Officials of the two countries will take up the matter during talks in Beijing on February 17, where Pakistan’s team will be led by Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal, officials say.

As part of the economic corridor that will turn Pakistan into a hub of regional cooperation, Gwadar Port will be connected through road, rail and fibre links to China to help enhance trade between the two countries.

Oil and gas pipelines are also part of the economic corridor over the long run, which is expected to provide a much-needed boost to economic activities in insurgency-hit Balochistan, according to the officials.

Under the short-term plan, Islamabad and Beijing want to develop Gwadar Port, whose control had already been given to China, in a bid to attract investment in different sectors to make it a hub of economic activities. Under this plan, an oil city will be set up at the port to meet fuel needs.

However, the United States and India are not pleased with the handing over of Gwadar Port to China, which will enhance its presence in the sea.

The government is also looking to revive the abandoned Coastal Oil Refinery at Gwadar, a project that had been shelved by China in 2009-10 after operations of the port were handed over to the Singapore Port Authority. A global recession compounded the problems, providing another reason to shelve the project.

The refinery, designed to have a maximum output of 60,000 barrels of oil per day, is part of China’s plan to invest $12 billion in multiple projects in Pakistan.

Oil pipeline

Officials pointed out that the oil and gas pipelines depended on normalisation of relations between the US and Iran.

Though Iran supplies oil and gas to Turkey, China and India, the US is piling on the pressure on Pakistan to stop it from importing energy from Tehran. Experts describe it an attempt to push Pakistan towards economic collapse due to acute energy shortages.

The PML-N government, which took over in June last year, has already offered Beijing to lay an oil pipeline from Gwadar to western China – a move that will allow the latter to diversify and safeguard crude oil import routes.

Officials suggested that the oil pipeline could later be linked with Iran, which had already offered to build a pipeline from its territory to Gwadar for the transport of crude oil.

During the previous government’s tenure, Iran had also expressed its willingness to set up an oil refinery at Gwadar Port with a production capacity of 400,000 barrels per day.

Officials pointed out that Gwadar Port was quite close to the Persian Gulf through which nearly 40% of world’s oil supply flows. China meets 50% of oil demand through imports from the Middle East. The supply line to China runs over the 10,000km Dubai-Shanghai-Urumqi ocean route.

“The crude oil processed and refined at the Gwadar oil refinery can be exported to Urumqi through the shortest possible route, which is Dubai-Gwadar-Urumqi spanning over 3,600 km. For this, an oil pipeline will be laid through the energy corridor up to western China via Karakoram Highway/Khunjrab Bypass,” an official said.

Gwadar Port: Pakistan, China all set to develop master plan – The Express Tribune

 

[Kompromat]

• Let's bury this pipeline, so these swines are not able to blow it up.
• Let's complete the IPP, even if its expensive
• Let's allow Iran to also bring an oil pipe and a refinery
• Let's Iran trade with China through Pakistan
• Once this is done, Iran won't tilt to India as much as India hopes it to because its interests will be intertwined with SinoPak camp and its geostrategic clout will be diversified.
• We also need Iran onboard as our next move must be to hook up Turkey with Gwadar transit to China.
  
  
• Let's allow GCC to do open chit investments in Gwadar
• Let's allow GCC to sell oil to China and Pakistan through Gwadar
• Let's allow GCC to benefit from the Free economic zone of Gwadar
• Let's allow GCC to invest in infrastructure and real estate
• Let's allow Iraq to join the pipe and the transit corridor

_______________________________________________________________________

End Result |

• Gwadar will become a hub for trade and energy
• Chinese naval rotation will boost maritime security in our region
• Iran, GCC, Iraq, China, Turkey, Pakistan's 'core interests' will intertwine for the best part of the 21st century.
• This would mean that Pakistan would become indispensable for the entire region as we would be the center of gravity.
• Pakistan's international clout would expand as our geostrategic relations will diversify with Super and Middle powers
• We could keep making sure that a certain enemy state doesn't realize its hegemonic agenda
• Once our SCO membership is in hand, we invite the Russians to connect with Gwadar, adding another dimension.
  
  If we play our cards right, we could become one of the fastest growing and sustainable economies in the world in the next 50 years.

 

[Cherokee]

• Let's bury this pipeline, so these swines are not able to blow it up.
• Let's complete the IPP, even if its expensive
• Let's allow Iran to also bring an oil pipe and a refinery
• Let's Iran trade with China through Pakistan
• Once this is done, Iran won't tilt to India as much as India hopes it to because its interests will be intertwined with SinoPak camp.
  
  
• Let's allow GCC to do open chit investments in Gwadar
• Let's allow GCC to sell oil to China and Pakistan through Gwadar
• Let's allow GCC to benefit from the Free economic zone of Gwadar
• Let's allow GCC to invest in infrastructure and real estate
• Let's allow Iraq to join the pipe and the transit corridor

_______________________________________________________________________

End Result |

• Gwadar will become a hub for trade and energy
• Chinese naval rotation will boost maritime security in our region
• Iran, GCC, Iraq, China, Pakistan's 'core interests' will intertwine for the best part of the 21st century.
• This would mean that Pakistan would become indispensable for the entire region as we would be the center of gravity.
• Pakistan's international clout would expand as our geostrategic relations will diversify with Super and Middle powers
• We could keep making sure that a certain enemy state doesn't realize its hegemonic agenda
• Once our SCO membership is in hand, we invite the Russians to connect with Gwadar, adding another dimension.
  
  If we play our cards right, we could become one of the fastest and sustainable economies in the world in the next 50 years.

Maa kasam ek news ke upar itne bullet points . Ek post me Iran bhi chura liya or GCC bhi . But for the time being i will wait and watch to see where it goes . Lots of Ifs and Buts and coulda/shoulda/woulda .

 

[Kompromat]

Maa kasam ek news ke upar itne bullet points . Ek post me Iran bhi chura liya or GCC bhi . But for the time being i will wait and watch to see where it goes . Lots of Ifs and Buts and coulda/shoulda/woulda .

We need your 'Asheerbaad'

 

[Cherokee]

We need your 'Asheerbaad'

While you might get "asheerbaad" you will not get to be a bigger player than India in IOC region . Even for Central Asia you have to compete with Iran/Afghanistan.

 

[Kompromat]

While you might get "asheerbaad" you will not get to be a bigger player than India in IOC region . Even for Central Asia you have to compete with Iran/Afghanistan.

We have no 'player ambitions'. Pakistan will become the 'stock broker' at the wall street. Doing business between the multi billion dollar enterprises and its thousand dollar shareholders. We don't need power, we just need to become the middleman and rich -- filthy rich.

 

[Cherokee]

We have no 'player ambitions'. Pakistan will become the 'stock broker' at the wall street. Doing business between the multi billion dollar enterprises and its thousand dollar shareholders. We don't need power, we just need to become the middleman and rich -- filthy rich.

Rich is a possibility but filthy rich . Never , not even India . And becoming rich and player ambitions are intertwined until and unless you are a small nation state of few hundred thousand people . Pakistan will certainly get its PIE in "Stock Broking" but i guess it will not be biggest one . Iran will have a bigger pie .

 

[CrazyPaki]

hopefully NS will get his head out of his *** and materialize the project

 

[Kompromat]

Rich is a possibility but filthy rich . Never , not even India . And becoming rich and player ambitions are intertwined until and unless you are a small nation state of few hundred thousand people . Pakistan will certainly get its PIE in "Stock Broking" but i guess it will not be biggest one . Iran will have a bigger pie .

Goal must be higher than expected projections. Pakistan can live comfortably if we have so much business going through our country. It will mushroom business in Pakistan too.

 

[VCheng]

Goal must be higher than expected projections. Pakistan can live comfortably if we have so much business going through our country. It will mushroom business in Pakistan too.

Gawadar will be an important port for Pakistan, no doubt, but it will likely never be anything more than that either.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

• Once our SCO membership is in hand, we invite the Russians to connect with Gwadar, adding another dimension.

Also, Central Asia is one of the most resource-rich regions on the entire planet. Not to mention the strategic value. Central Asia has been called the "geostrategic pivot of history".

Unfortunately, Central Asia is completely land-locked.

Gwadar and the SCO can do a lot to mitigate this geographical contraint. With the boom in the developing world, energy will be more important than ever.

 

[Cherokee]

Also, Central Asia is one of the most resource-rich regions on the entire planet. Not to mention the strategic value. Central Asia has been called the "geostrategic pivot of history".

Unfortunately, Central Asia is completely land-locked.

Gwadar and the SCO can do a lot to mitigate this geographical contraint. With the boom in the developing world, energy will be more important than ever.

Isn't china directly connected to Central Asia ??

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

Isn't china directly connected to Central Asia ??

That's right, we already have several oil and gas pipelines connected to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, etc.

Gwadar could be a warm-water port for the SCO though. Something that Russia and Central Asia have always been interested in.

 

[RAMPAGE]

That's right, we already have several oil and gas pipelines connected to Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, etc.

Gwadar could be a warm-water port for the SCO though. Something that Russia and Central Asia have always been interested in.

Can't we benefit with these pipelines ???

@niaz

 

[Nishan_101]

ISLAMABAD: In a strategic move, Pakistan and China are set to make headway towards developing a master plan for Gwadar Port as part of an economic corridor that envisages investment of $12 billion by Beijing.

Officials of the two countries will take up the matter during talks in Beijing on February 17, where Pakistan’s team will be led by Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal, officials say.

As part of the economic corridor that will turn Pakistan into a hub of regional cooperation, Gwadar Port will be connected through road, rail and fibre links to China to help enhance trade between the two countries.

Oil and gas pipelines are also part of the economic corridor over the long run, which is expected to provide a much-needed boost to economic activities in insurgency-hit Balochistan, according to the officials.

Under the short-term plan, Islamabad and Beijing want to develop Gwadar Port, whose control had already been given to China, in a bid to attract investment in different sectors to make it a hub of economic activities. Under this plan, an oil city will be set up at the port to meet fuel needs.

However, the United States and India are not pleased with the handing over of Gwadar Port to China, which will enhance its presence in the sea.

The government is also looking to revive the abandoned Coastal Oil Refinery at Gwadar, a project that had been shelved by China in 2009-10 after operations of the port were handed over to the Singapore Port Authority. A global recession compounded the problems, providing another reason to shelve the project.

The refinery, designed to have a maximum output of 60,000 barrels of oil per day, is part of China’s plan to invest $12 billion in multiple projects in Pakistan.

Oil pipeline

Officials pointed out that the oil and gas pipelines depended on normalisation of relations between the US and Iran.

Though Iran supplies oil and gas to Turkey, China and India, the US is piling on the pressure on Pakistan to stop it from importing energy from Tehran. Experts describe it an attempt to push Pakistan towards economic collapse due to acute energy shortages.

The PML-N government, which took over in June last year, has already offered Beijing to lay an oil pipeline from Gwadar to western China – a move that will allow the latter to diversify and safeguard crude oil import routes.

Officials suggested that the oil pipeline could later be linked with Iran, which had already offered to build a pipeline from its territory to Gwadar for the transport of crude oil.

During the previous government’s tenure, Iran had also expressed its willingness to set up an oil refinery at Gwadar Port with a production capacity of 400,000 barrels per day.

Officials pointed out that Gwadar Port was quite close to the Persian Gulf through which nearly 40% of world’s oil supply flows. China meets 50% of oil demand through imports from the Middle East. The supply line to China runs over the 10,000km Dubai-Shanghai-Urumqi ocean route.

“The crude oil processed and refined at the Gwadar oil refinery can be exported to Urumqi through the shortest possible route, which is Dubai-Gwadar-Urumqi spanning over 3,600 km. For this, an oil pipeline will be laid through the energy corridor up to western China via Karakoram Highway/Khunjrab Bypass,” an official said.

Gwadar Port: Pakistan, China all set to develop master plan – The Express Tribune

Pakistani Govt. should build Gwadar Port Authority - GPA by taking experienced men from KPT and Port Qasim and bring in Local educated Balochis to work and get trained. Also the $1 Billion or more or less invested by China should be given off by Pakistan as the money which would be gained from that port must go pay back the Chinese.

Also PN should secure Land in East and West Zone of Gwadar to build two mega ship yards with each having 5 Mega Docks and also space to house in PN or Military vicinity 1500 MW N power plants(future plan).