Iran Ready to Export Natural Gas to India: Official!

[JanjaWeed]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Director General of National Iranian Gas Export Company Alireza Kameli said the country is ready to sign an agreement with a major Indian company for the export of Iran's natural gas to the Subcontinent.
After India left the IP Gas Pipeline project, a consortium of some Indian companies headed by South Asia Gas Enterprise Pvt. Ltd. (SAGE) expressed willingness to import Iran's natural gas, Kameli told SHANA on Saturday.

He went on to say that the company is waiting for the termination of anti-Iran sanctions to fund the construction of a 3000 km underwater (deep-sea) pipeline.

The history of border conflicts between India and Pakistan made the Indian side opt for using a totally independent pipeline for importing gas from Iran, Kameli added.

For years there has been talk of an India-Iran-Oman energy triangle, whereby an under-sea natural gas pipeline would connect Oman and India. As India's economy grows, demand for gas will continue to exceed supply from domestic sources and imported gas will play an important role in bridging the demand-supply gap in the market.

At first, India was supposed to import gas from Iran via a land pipeline that is to carry gas to Pakistan, but it backed out of the project in 2007, citing security concerns in Pakistani territory. After that, Iran and Pakistan decided to go it alone.

Tasnim News Agency - Iran Ready to Export Natural Gas to India: Official
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[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

We will blow it up it comes close to our land

 

[JanjaWeed]

We will blow it up it comes close to our land

Old habits die hard!

 

[Indus Pakistan]

All the best. We just need to focuss on finishing the IP pipeline. It is already built upto our border.

Ps. I did some checking on the under sea option. Seems expensive and far fetched. The 700 miles route underwater goes through minus 10,000 ft that is nearly two miles under the sea. Do you know what pressure we are talking about?

 

[saurav]

All the best. We just need to focuss on finishing the IP pipeline. It is already built upto our border.

Ps. I did some checking on the under sea option. Seems expensive and far fetched. The 700 miles route underwater goes through minus 10,000 ft that is nearly two miles under the sea. Do you know what pressure we are talking about?

Its very much doable. At least two pipelines of similar length are already operating.

OT : SAGE pipeline is most obvious choice for a Gas pipeline for us. It will cost us ~$6-7 Bill. But will avoid all "contentious" issues in foreseeable future.

 

[Dr Gupta]

We will blow it up it comes close to our land

Sea is now land?

All the best. We just need to focuss on finishing the IP pipeline. It is already built upto our border.

Ps. I did some checking on the under sea option. Seems expensive and far fetched. The 700 miles route underwater goes through minus 10,000 ft that is nearly two miles under the sea. Do you know what pressure we are talking about?

It's cheaper in the long run as no transit fees to be paid

 

[AZADPAKISTAN2009]

Kaboom under water its our ocean

 

[Dr Gupta]

Kaboom under water its our ocean

You have rights over international sea's now? you been smoking crack? or plain inbred?

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Its very much doable. At least two pipelines of similar length are already operating.

OT : SAGE pipeline is most obvious choice for a Gas pipeline for us. It will cost us ~$6-7 Bill. But will avoid all "contentious" issues in foreseeable future.

Yes, but as ever it is not that simpler. Besides the fact of cost you have to contend with seismic region and to finish it off you need compression station on the Murray ridge which probably falls within Pakistan EEZ.

Thus your back to knocking at Islamabad's doors. Sorry ......

@Dr Gupta UN Convention on Law of Sea economic control over seabed and waters upto 200 nautical miles. Murray ridge falls possibly within that zone and you guys need compression station.

 

[Schutz]

We will blow it up it comes close to our land

 

[Dr Gupta]

Yes, but as ever it is not that simpler. Besides the fact of cost you have to contend with seismic region and to finish it off you need compression station on the Murray ridge which probably falls within Pakistan EEZ.

Thus your back to knocking at Islamabad's doors. Sorry ......

No we not knocking on your door, undersea pipelines have been built and function today.

How are subsea gas pipelines built

World's Longest Underwater Pipeline Will Tap the Sea

Yes, but as ever it is not that simpler. Besides the fact of cost you have to contend with seismic region and to finish it off you need compression station on the Murray ridge which probably falls within Pakistan EEZ.

Thus your back to knocking at Islamabad's doors. Sorry ......

@Dr Gupta UN Convention on Law of Sea economic control over seabed and waters upto 200 nautical miles. Murray ridge falls possibly within that zone and you guys need compression station.

We are aware Pakistan has been awarded the extending of sea rights but we will be going around it, yes it will cost more but this is a long term project which is worth the added cost.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

These projects are expensive and even worse are still subject to Pakistan's involvement at some level. This is by no means a done deal so don't count your chickens yet ...

However, that situation has changed after the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) extended Pakistan’s seabed territory by another 150 kms on March 19.

The extension of the continental shelf from 200 nautical miles to 350 nautical miles would give Islamabad special rights with regards to exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production in the area under its jurisdiction, also described as its EEZ.

India’s assessment is that Pakistan, which is not a beneficiary of the sub-sea pipeline, was unlikely to allow the pipeline to cross its exclusive economic zone as in 1995 when Islamabad blocked a proposed deep-sea pipeline from Oman to India because it crossed its exclusive economic zone.

Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, coastal nations are allowed economic control of the waters and seabed up to 200 nautical miles from their shores. They can further claim an extended shelf up to 350 nautical miles from the baseline of sea if they prove that the claimed area was a natural prolongation of their land.

The second problem that could crop up is that the SAGE project hinges on an offshore gas compression station on Qualhat Seamount (Murray Ridge), about 300km from the Omani coast. The seamount could now fall under Pakistan’s control and the station can be set up with Islamabad’s approval, said officials.

- See more at: Stuck in the pipeline: A $4-billion deep-sea gas project | The Indian Express

Stuck in the pipeline: A $4-billion deep-sea gas project | The Indian Express

 

[Dr Gupta]

If we joined IPI how much in fee's would be have to pay in transit? at least $200 million per year minimum, now x that by 10 years that is $2bn!

 

[Aramagedon]

I don't see any disturbance for Pakistan.

 

[Indus Pakistan]

If we joined IPI how much in fee's would be have to pay in transit? at least $200 million per year minimum, now x that by 10 years that is $2bn!

So Doctor to put it bluntly with the SAGE you guy's are "jumping from the frying pan into the fire" and given this just join in with the IPI. You can't get around Pakistan that easy.

Choice is yours !!!