Turkmenistan Wants TAPI Construction Work to Begin in 2015

Construction of TAPI gas pipeline should begin in 2015, Turkmenistan's president Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov has demanded.

Berdymukhamedov said all the agreements required for the project's launch should be completed this year, news agency AP reported Friday citing country’s state media.

A memorandum of understanding between the four countries linked by the TAPI pipeline was signed in 2010 and a supply deal was completed in 2012.

The 1,735-kilometer pipeline is expected to cost around $8 billion and have an annual capacity of 33 billion cubic meters of gas.

The pipeline will cross the Afghan cities of Herat and Kandahar and end in the Indian-Pakistani border town of Fazilka, AP said.

Sign-up for our free weekly newsletter update via email here