17.10.12

TAPI project hits a bump


A major component of the US’ Afghanistan reconstruction plan has hit a bump, with international companies refusing to take up the job of laying the $9-billion pipeline for wheeling gas from Turkmenistan to India unless they were given stake in the gas fields that would feed the energy lifeline.
Turkmenistan is unrelenting on giving stake in its fields to a foreign firm since it does not follow an open-door policy, putting a question mark over the construction of the pipeline.

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