Afghanistan confirmed that construction will begin in 2021 on the portion of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline crossing its territory. Minister of Mines and Oil Industry Guran Chakhansuri said work word start in Herat.
Turkmenistan’s foreign minister last week said that his country would complete construction in its territory during 2020 and begin building in Afghanistan next year (OGJ Online, Nov. 30, 2020).
Chakhansuri also said Afghanistan plans to start building the 59-mile Shibargan-Mazar-i-Sharif gas pipeline through northern Afghanistan in the next 3 months.
TAPI will run 133 miles in Turkmenistan, 480 miles through Afghanistan (including the cities of Herat and Kandahar), and 512 miles across Pakistan (including Quetta and Multan) before reaching the Indian border.
