MEP: With the signing of Turkmenistan gas pipeline through Afghanistan to Pakistan and India (TAPI), the design and engineering work on the project officially began.
This contract was signed today (February 21) at the Presidential Palace (ARG) by Abdul Qayom Raashid, Head of Afghanistan’s Oil and Gas Enterprise and Stephen, the president of ILF company.
According to the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum, the project starts with the cost of $4.7 billion and a length of 1735 km from Turkmenistan and ends to India.
TAPI gas pipeline will have the transmission capacity of 33 billion cubic meters of gas per year.
The project will be implemented in two phases and the first phase of implementation that takes a year, includes security planning, project management, finalization of the agreements, project design, environmental and social studies, demining and survey land acquisition and in the second stage takes three years, a major construction of project will begin to form.
