Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline (IPP) News & Updates.

[Fracker]

what happen to 22 millin dollar given by Iran?

Kindly finish it soon as possible, so Pakistan can start other Gas Pipeline project from Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan... Pakistan really need to finish these geo-strategical project ASAP... Including Gawadar port Motorway Connectivity...

 

[acid rain]

India Vs Pakistan - Protecting Their National Interest - YouTube

 

[BATMAN]

^^ Can you post any link.. where it says Zardari received $22 million from Iran?

 

[UmarJustice]

Iran pitches extending pipeline to India via Pakistan

NEW DELHI: Iran made a pitch on Friday for the extension of gas pipeline with Pakistan to India with its visiting chief of Supreme National Security Council, Saeed Jalili, saying that Tehran had the "best capacity" to provide security for the pipeline. Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Jalili was on a three -day visit to India during which he met his counterpart NSA Shivshankar Menon.

Apart from Iran's nuclear power programme, the two sides also discussed regional issues like terrorism and the situation in Afghanistan as Kabul pushes for its controversial Peace Process Roadmap with the Taliban.

India has repeatedly cited security as one of the concerns for not joining the pipeline known earlier as IPI (Iran-Pakistan-India) pipeline. Tehran has left open the option of India joining later. "Iran has the second largest gas reserves in the world and we will welcome any step which can be used for the benefit of people," said Jalili. He was replying to a query about whether Tehran was still trying to convince India to allow the pipeline to be extended from Pakistan to India. "Just like the way it has handled piracy in the Persian Gulf, Iran has the best capacity to provide security also," he added when asked about the pipeline.

With the talks in Chantilly near Paris between the Taliban and Kabul administration suggesting that the Taliban may play a role in Afghanistan's administration, a worried Indian side also discussed what is already being described as the blurring of "red lines". India is hoping to forge a partnership with Iran which will allow it to deal with any such eventuality. The Indian government believes that the Chantilly talks were a "tentative exercise" and not truly representative of either the government or Taliban.

Jalili chose not to comment directly though on whether Iran approved of the Chantilly talks. "On the issue of Afghanistan we should give responsibility to the Afghan people. Whatever they decide should be respected," he said, adding that Iran wants immediate withdrawal of US-led forces in Afghanistan.

Both Iran and India believe that it may be a little premature to come to any judgment now. The Indian government believes that Afghanistan's Majlis has already sought an explanation from its foreign minister about how these talks were allowed to happen.

Jalili said Iran was looking to strengthen security ties with India. He said that countries like India and Pakistan should evolve a joint strategy for Afghanistan's stability.

Iran pitches extending pipeline to India via Pakistan - The Times of India

 

[SHAMK9]

The National Iranian Gas Company has announced it will begin construction of the Iran-Pakistan (IP) pipeline within 30 days. Construction will start on the Pakistani side with the first 700 kilometers that will run to the Iranian border. Iran will then build 300 kilometers of the IP pipeline on its territory, to connect up with the Pakistani border. Starting in 2014, the pipeline will transport 2.15 million cubic meters of gas per day to Pakistan. Iranian banks are assisting Pakistan with its portion of the pipeline financing with some $750 million in loans and equipment.

Bottom Line: Pakistan needs this pipeline desperately, and Iran is intent on seeing it go through—to the extent of ensuring the financing of the bulk of the project. The West is equally determined to sabotage it. The fact that the pipeline runs through some extremely insecure territory in Balochistan will make its success questionable and this is likely to become the new frontline in the pipeline wars for 2013.
Iran-Pakistan: Western Pipeline Nightmare

 

[darkinsky]

this is a good news, may solve our gas problems

but, i have high reservations about the economic plans of this project

the economists can tell better if its economically viable

we have several energy crisis at hand, electricity is among them, so will we also import electricity, we need to start all these prejects in our hame, not buy expensive things from abroad

india doesnt has natural gas reseres even then its not importing gas from iran, where as we having balochistan which is filled with gas reserves but we are importing

 

[Yogi]

this is a good news, may solve our gas problems

but, i have high reservations about the economic plans of this project

the economists can tell better if its economically viable

we have several energy crisis at hand, electricity is among them, so will we also import electricity, we need to start all these prejects in our hame, not buy expensive things from abroad

india doesnt has natural gas reseres even then its not importing gas from iran, where as we having balochistan which is filled with gas reserves but we are importing

R u kidding me bro, India has significantly more reserves than Pak, every heard of KG basin it alone holds more than 64 trillion cubic feet of Gas...

The main problem with Pak is that u have made dependent ur entire industry on gas that why u guys r suffering so much on gas crisis whereas we mainly use it for some powerplants n domestic use...

Krishna Godavari Basin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[darkinsky]

R u kidding me bro, India has significantly more reserves than Pak, every heard of KG basin it alone holds more than 64 trillion cubic feet of Gas...

The main problem with Pak is that u have made dependent ur entire industry on gas that why u guys r suffering so much on gas crisis whereas we mainly use it for some powerplants n domestic use...

Krishna Godavari Basin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

well balochistan and sindh has loads and loads of untapped and undiscovered gas fields

also india's population is 8 times the pak population, so my post was actually related to the ratio, for per person in pakistan it has significantly large gas reserves than india

 

[Yogi]

well balochistan and sindh has loads and loads of untapped and undiscovered gas fields

also india's population is 8 times the pak population, so my post was actually related to the ratio, for per person in pakistan it has significantly large gas reserves than india

ok i got ur point, but the problem with Pak is that its not even efficient in utilizing its already discovered resources n ur talking about untapped n yet to be discovered resources...

look at Thar coal project, look at the struck hydro electricity projects or ur civil nuclear program...

besides the main issue with Gas shortage in Pak is that Musharraf shifted the entire economy to Gas from Oil thats why u see that the petrol prices in Pak r half of that in India but Gas prices r double of that in India...

too much dependence on any one thing is always dangerous coupled with a corrupt govt.(same story in entire South Asia) n ur doomed...

 

[darkinsky]

ok i got ur point, but the problem with Pak is that its not even efficient in utilizing its already discovered resources n ur talking about untapped n yet to be discovered resources...

look at Thar coal project, look at the struck hydro electricity projects or ur civil nuclear program...

besides the main issue with Gas shortage in Pak is that Musharraf shifted the entire economy to Gas from Oil thats why u see that the petrol prices in Pak r half of that in India but Gas prices r double of that in India...

too much dependence on any one thing is always dangerous coupled with a corrupt govt.(same story in entire South Asia) n ur doomed...

and still gas is cheaper than oil in pakistan

well we have vast reserves of gas so its likely if we shift our dwindling economy to a cheaper resource, it will support our economy

obviously the expensive fuel will result in electricity being expensive and all resource being expensive, now we arnt supporting our dwindling economy are we

we can afford to use gas as our primary fuel but we cant afford bad planning, planning..

there are gas reserves already found, but the plants are not there to extract the gas and make it for public usage, the omney is being spend where it shouldnt and severe lack utilising the funds in the most important area and wastage of money

international economy is influened by oil prices, as oil prices go high every oil dependent economy suffers, if we are not depending on oil too much we are actually saving ourselves from the global economic catastrophy

 

[Yogi]

and still gas is cheaper than oil in pakistan

well we have vast reserves of gas so its likely if we shift our dwindling economy to a cheaper resource, it will support our economy

obviously the expensive fuel will result in electricity being expensive and all resource being expensive, now we arnt supporting our dwindling economy are we

we can afford to use gas as our primary fuel but we cant afford bad planning, planning..

there are gas reserves already found, but the plants are not there to extract the gas and make it for public usage, the omney is being spend where it shouldnt and severe lack utilising the funds in the most important area and wastage of money

international economy is influened by oil prices, as oil prices go high every oil dependent economy suffers, if we are not depending on oil too much we are actually saving ourselves from the global economic catastrophy

i m not against ur dependence on Gas but my point was that Pak has made its entire economy too much dependent on Gas, which is not correct one should always try to mitigate the risk of too much dependence on any one product thats all...

 

[farhan_9909]

@Yogi

List of countries by natural gas proven reserves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

not much of difference despite the fact that india is larger than pakistan


It also doenst include the recent discoveries including the latest in zin block(earlier one) with 22 tcf or twice the size of sui.

it also does't include the 3.7tcf discovered in karal,1.09tcf recent discovery in another block of zin and many more in 2012

ENI the italian firm has already said that total reserves in zin block are much more than the discovered(22tcf+1.09tcf already discovered)

So yes it is true When we talk of natural resources pakistan is rich in natural resources than india

 

[Star Wars]

US will do its best to ruin this (i hope not)

 

[Yogi]

@Yogi

List of countries by natural gas proven reserves - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

not much of difference despite the fact that india is larger than pakistan


It also doenst include the recent discoveries including the latest in zin block(earlier one) with 22 tcf or twice the size of sui.

it also does't include the 3.7tcf discovered in karal,1.09tcf recent discovery in another block of zin and many more in 2012

ENI the italian firm has already said that total reserves in zin block are much more than the discovered(22tcf+1.09tcf already discovered)

So yes it is true When we talk of natural resources pakistan is rich in natural resources than india

I don't wanna engage in any d!ck measuring competition but just for the record some recent discoveries -

'India holds 527 tcf of shale gas reserves' - Money - DNA

India maps huge gas reserves around Andaman Islands

Krishna Godavari Basin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cairn India's Rajasthan block has record 7.3 billion-barrel oil reserve - Economic Times

besides Oil n Gas r not the only mineral reserves in the world -

we r the 4th largest producer of Iron Ore where as Pak is not even among the top 20, we r have the 4th largest reserve of Coal in the world, 4th largest reserve of Bauxite n many others as well as we have one of the largest reserves of Thorium in the world as well as significant reserves of Uranium as well...

Largest uranium reserves found in India - Telegraph

The Hindu : News / National : Major uranium deposit found in Rajasthan

 

[A.Rafay]

@nuclearpak need some cleaning in this thread Alot of irrelevant posts need to be deleted!


Iran, Pakistan make progress on IP gas project: Rabbani Khar

Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar says Iran and Pakistan have made progress in building a multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline, despite illegal US-engineered sanctions.


Addressing a National Assembly session on Monday, the Pakistani minister added that Islamabad faced a “huge challenge” to fund the Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline.

She emphasized that Pakistan required USD1.5 billion to build the 781-kilometer pipeline needed for the implementation of the project on its soil.

The foreign minister stated that her country is holding talks with Tehran to find ways to “solve the financial constraints.”

The pipeline, projected to cost about USD 1.2-1.5 billion, would enable the export of 21.5 million cubic meters of Iran’s natural gas to Pakistan on a daily basis.

Iran has already built more than 900 kilometers of the pipeline on its soil.

The Express Tribune reported on January 10 that Iran and Pakistan have devised a plan to finance the gas pipeline on Pakistan’s side without the need for Islamabad to transfer funds to Tehran.

The report came a day after the board of directors of the Pakistani Inter State Gas Systems (ISGS) announced that Tehran will grant a USD500-million loan to Tehran-based Tadbir Energy Development Group.

In the first phase, Iran will lend USD250 million and extend the assistance later to USD500 million.

The proposal will be submitted to the Economic Coordination Committee of Pakistan’s Cabinet for approval.

PressTV - Iran, Pakistan make progress on IP gas project: Rabbani Khar