Turkmenistan completes TAPI pipeline welding

Turkmenistan has completed welding its 214-km portion of the 1,814-km Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline. Pipelay, compressor station construction, and valve installation is ongoing, according to Turkmen state media.

Turkmengaz State Concern, the national gas company of Turkmenistan, has entered into an agreement with a Hong Kong company to oversee the construction of the pipeline and its two compressor stations. Turkmen state media did not identify the company.

Pipe has been welded from 16-tcf Galkynysh gas field to the Turkmen-Afghan border. TAPI is designed to move 33-million tonnes/year (tpy) to Fazilka in northern Punjab province, India.

Land acquisition issues have so far delayed construction in Afghanistan.