... declarations of “good intentions” and “close historical ties” into practical action. Bilateral contacts were sporadic, and the early attempts by state-owned oil and gas companies to participate in the development of energy resources in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan did not reflect the level of interest within India’s broader business community. Major national conglomerates, which form the “core” of the private sector, were not interested in local markets.
Over the past several years, however, the situation has begun to change. Representatives of Indian ...
... Iran might play a role here.
The idea to build a gas pipeline across South Asia is nothing new. There is already the off-and-on Peace pipeline from Iran to Pakistan and further to India (known as IP Gas), as well as the TAPI gas pipeline (involving Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India). It should be noted that Iran and Turkmenistan, the gas producers for both projects, have already conducted the requisite work, and the relevant pipelines have already been laid. The problem is buyers and transit countries stalling the process....
... twenty years Turkmenistan has been making a number of more or less successful attempts to diversify its supply routes, for example, through the Trans-Caspian pipeline.
An undeniable highlight of the past year has been the December 2015
launch
of the Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan India pipeline project, also known as TAPI. A highly ambitious initiative with its roots going back to the former President of Turkmenistan, the gas pipeline project has been positioned as a pipeline for peace, a means of connecting Afghanistan with the ...
