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Iran to ready gas pipeline in one year
ISLAMABAD, Sept 29: Iran will build gas pipeline up to the Pakistan border within one year and it could be linked with the pipeline soon as it is laid on the Pakistani side, National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) officials said.
In a meeting with the Petroleum Minister Syed Naveed Qamar here on Wednesday the Iranian delegation said that they had already constructed 900 km pipeline of 56-inch diameter from Assulyah gas processing facility up to Iran Shehar.
The delegation led by Hamid Ahmadi Sharaf, the director of Gas Export to Pakistan, said that only 250 km of the pipeline remains to be constructed up to the Pakistan border.
The delegation members said that Iran was establishing the pipeline to provide gas to develop its eastern regions and the same pipeline could provide gas to Pakistan. The delegation is here in connection with the meeting of Iran-Pakistan Gas Sales Purchase Agreement coordination committee.
Initially, the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline is scheduled to import 750 million cubic feet (mmcfd) gas per day from Iran by 2015.
Pakistani interest in the project is being looked after by Inter State Gas Systems Limited (ISGSL). Its managing director Hilal A Raza briefed the minister about the outcome of IP pipeline coordination committee meeting with NIOC.
He said that significant progress and understanding was achieved on the technical specifications of the pipeline, quantity of gas to be delivered and identification of the delivery point on the border.
The meeting decided that the contact point between the pipelines of two countries will be at some place north of Gwadar and the pipeline would travel along the Coastal Highway and move towards Nawabshah soon after entering the Sindh province.
The IP gas pipeline after travelling around 800 km will deliver gas to the main hub of gas systems in the country at Nawabshah, which is the main distribution point for both the SNGPL and SSGC.
The estimated cost of the project is more than $2 billion and the engineering design contract is expected to be awarded soon.
Hilal Raza told the petroleum minister that structure feasibility, front engineering and the design of the project will be completed in 15 months by the end of 2011 and work at the project can start by 2012.
As per the planned schedule the pipeline will be completed by end of 2014, he said. The next coordination committee meeting is scheduled to be held in Tehran in February 2011.
