India, Turkmenistan signs joint agreement on key bilateral, regional issues

[Kompromat]

Why cant we divert their pipeline in to Chabhar and then to India through ships or underwater pipeline ?

Sounds like an outstanding idea, please go ahead.

 

[SrNair]

Sounds like an outstanding idea, please go ahead.

Admin that was just a doubt .Anytype of pipeline through Pakistan is a concern.

 

[SpArK]

TAPI construction to begin this year: Turkmen President
Plans are afoot to set up a urea manufacturing facility in Turkmenistan and opening a office by ONGC Videsh Ltd in Ashgabat

Ashgabat: Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov has committed to deepen ties with India and begin construction of the $10 billion TAPI gas pipeline project this year, as the two countries sought to step up collaboration in the energy sector and fertilizer production.


President Berdymuhamedov committed to strengthen ties with India during a meeting with external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj at the presidential palace inAshgabat on Wednesday.

Swaraj, who co-chaired the fifth India-Turkmenistan inter-governmental joint commission on trade, economic, scientific and technological cooperation with her Turkmen counterpart Rashid Meredov, termed it as a “preparatory” meeting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first visit to this country in July.

“Committed to deepening India-Turkmenistan ties. #TAPI construction to begin this year. President Berdymuhamedov to EAM @SushmaSwaraj,” a ministry of external affairs tweet said.

During the minister’s maiden visit to the Central Asian country, the two nations agreed to collaborate in the energy sector and discussed key bilateral and regional issues, including defence cooperation. Plans are afoot to set up a urea manufacturing facility in Turkmenistan and opening a representative office by ONGC Videsh Ltd in Ashgabat.
Swaraj and Meredov agreed on joint efforts to expedite the implementation of the TAPI pipeline project. India and Turkmenistan also discussed bilateral cooperation in the oil and gas sector, specifically fertilizers and petrochemicals, and agreed to expedite mutually beneficial cooperation in this field.

The Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India (TAPI) gas project is an over 1,800 km pipeline with design capacity to supply 3.2 billion cubic feet of natural gas per annum from Turkmenistan to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. It is expected to be operational by 2018. TAPI will carry gas from Turkmenistan’s Galkynysh field that holds gas reserves of 16 trillion cubic feet.

From the field, the pipeline will run to Herat and Kandahar province of Afghanistan, before entering Pakistan, where it will reach Multan via Quetta before ending at Fazilka in Punjab in India.

Turkmenistan possesses the world’s fourth-largest reserves of natural gas and substantial oil resources. The Galkynysh gas field has the second-largest volume of gas in the world, after the South Pars field in the Persian Gulf. PTI

TAPI construction to begin this year: Turkmen President - Livemint

 

[Kompromat]

Admin that was just a doubt .Anytype of pipeline through Pakistan is a concern.

Please feel free to take it 2500km through Taliban country to a port that doesn't exist, from where it will be taken 1500kms under the sea to India in a pipeline that will require 10 years, billions of dollars and would have to be taken 350 NMi away from Pakistani SEZ for it to be 'safe'.

 

[Sugarcane]

Why cant we divert their pipeline in to Chabhar and then to India through ships or underwater pipeline ?

Iran also have plenty of gas, why you need to bring it from Turkmenistan to Iran? Why not directly from Iran?

 

[SrNair]

Please feel free to take it 2500km through Taliban country to a port that doesn't exist, from where it will be taken 1500kms under the sea to India in a pipeline that will require 10 years, billions of dollars and would have to be taken 350 NMi away from Pakistani SEZ for it to be 'safe'.

Any way it will pass through Afghanistan ,if we can pass it through Chabhar port (funds already allowed,sanctions lifted ,will complete within few years) ,then we can use containers for transhipments .Cost will be high but there wont be any security concerns .
Lets GoI decide ,If they allows it through Pakistan then we dont have any problem.

 

[SpArK]

Please feel free to take it 2500km through Taliban country to a port that doesn't exist, from where it will be taken 1500kms under the sea to India in a pipeline that will require 10 years, billions of dollars and would have to be taken 350 NMi away from Pakistani SEZ for it to be 'safe'.

Actually, an undersea pipeline construction will only take 3-4 years at the max and will cost 5 billions and can transport 31 million cubic meters of gas a day as per feasibility studies, but its not considered as of now.

TAPI's main concern will be the terrain of Afghanistan.

 

[SrNair]

Iran also have plenty of gas, why you need to bring it from Turkmenistan to Iran? Why not directly from Iran?

We cant depend a single supplier .We need to diversify it.

 

[SpArK]

We cant depend a single supplier .We need to diversify it.

Its actually multi.

The Oman _India undersea pipeline study, the company , the technology are all ready to take off any time soon.

 

[Kompromat]

Best of luck with your sub sea pipeline. We won't be allowing you to take it through our SEZ, therefore you'd have to take it to Oman first through world's busiest shipping route.

 

[SrNair]

Its actually multi.

The Oman _India undersea pipeline study, the company , the technology are all ready to take off any time soon.

I think it is Oman-Iran-India project .AFAIK feasibility study is already completed .
And another with Russia through China is also in planning stage .

 

[SpArK]

Best of luck with your sub sea pipeline. We won't be allowing you to take it through our SEZ, therefore you'd have to take it to Oman first through world's busiest shipping route.

Actually you are not a party as the sea doesnt belong to you exclusively or neither it passes through ur SEZ... as the people behind these projects are not fools.

 

[SrNair]

Actually you are not a party as the sea doesnt belong to you exclusively or neither it passes through ur SEZ... as the people behind these projects are not fools.


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It would be an engineering feast .Look at the challenge they are laying pipeline on seabed at an ultra depth of 3450 M
And this was a new information to me , project was already in development stage from 1990.

 

[Echo_419]

Best of luck with your sub sea pipeline. We won't be allowing you to take it through our SEZ, therefore you'd have to take it to Oman first through world's busiest shipping route.

Who says you won't be allowing such a pipeline

Actually you are not a party as the sea doesnt belong to you exclusively or neither it passes through ur SEZ... as the people behind these projects are not fools.


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Pakistan is Isolated once again

 

[UPer]

Actually both IPI and TAPI are god send for both India and Pakistan. Only thing that stands in way is ego and emotions. A rational thought would say that it kills two birds in one stone - huge economic development and peace between nations.

Not a good analogy but can't resist; kind of like marriage at gun point