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PAKISTAN, TURKMENISTAN SIGN JOINT IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TO EXECUTE TAPI GAS PIPELINE PROJECT
The Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India (TAPI) Gas Pipeline, also known as Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline, is a natural gas pipeline being developed by the TAPI Pipeline Company Limited with participation of the Asian Development Bank. The pipeline will transport natural gas from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan into Pakistan and then to India.
Construction on the project started in Turkmenistan on 13 December 2015, while construction of the Afghanistan-Pakistan section of the pipeline was held in February 2018.
The roots of this project line in the involvement of international oil companies in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan beginning of 1990s.
As Russia, who controlled all export pipelines of these countries, consistently refused to allow the use of its pipeline network, these companies needed an independent export route avoiding both Iran and Russia.
The original project started on 15 March 1995 when an inaugural memorandum of understanding between the governments of Turkmenistan and Pakistan for a pipeline project was signed.
This project was promoted by Argentinian company Bridas Corporation. The U.S. company Unocal, in conjunction with the Saudi oil company Delta, promoted an alternative project without Bridas' involvement.
On 21 October 1995, these two companies signed a separate agreement with Turkmenistan
