Why Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline is Important

[El Sidd]

Your still not being explicit. Are you saying it requires India. And if so why did you just not say "it's not viable because it needs India" at the outset? And no it does not require India. Pakistan is a country of 200 million people. The gas reserves in Pakistan are dwindling and demands is growing and will grow even More. Even with LPG being imported the situation looks grim over the next few years.

Gas shortfall to equal total current supplies in two years

Khaleeq KianiFebruary 12, 2018

ISLAMABAD: With an addition of 300,000 gas consumers every year, the country’s gas shortage is estimated to touch four billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) — almost equal to current total supplies — in two years and will go beyond 6.6bcfd by 2030.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1388901

I was very clear.

No matter how much a Consumer society Pakistan is. India will always be 7 Times bigger than that. Its simple business sense.

Although the prospect of energy supply lines through our backyard may Sound appealing both financially and otherwise. Its not worth it.

 

[RoadRunner401]

It's not question of viability. I know of no country on earth that has one of largest oil/gas resources available next door but it is suffering from crippling energy deficit every year. Iran is 'drowning' in it. Pakistan next door is 'starving' for it. And the Iranian pipeline has tap right on the Pakistan border. Yet Pakistan is thirsty for energy.

The reason for all this is Uncle Sam won't let us have it.

1)It was reported during late months of 2016 that Pakistan has put an end to the pipeline project owing to political pressure from a Gulf country ( I wonder which country would that be) .

2) Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project is unlikely to pose a challenge to a postponed plan to export Iran's natural gas to Pakistan, Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said.

"The implementation of the project to supply gas to India to compete with the [Iran-Pakistan] Peace pipeline is unlikely," Zanganeh was quoted as saying by IRNA on Tuesday.

TAPI is a planned 1,800-kilometer stretch of pipeline aimed at transferring natural gas from Turkmenistan to India.

With a capacity to transfer up to 33 billion cubic meters of gas annually, TAPI, which will also run through Pakistan, can undermine the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project, which has been shelved despite making significant progress in Iran's territory.

"It is an extremely difficult and remarkable task to mend ties between Pakistan and India," Zanganeh said, playing down the prospects of collaboration between the two states whose ties are overshadowed by mistrust and war.

The minister made the remarks following reports that Saudi Arabia is planning to finance TAPI, a move that could undermine Iran's efforts to revive the protracted gas pipeline project with Pakistan.

Earlier this month, news agencies cited Maksat Babayev, Turkmenistan's deputy prime minister in charge of the fuel and energy sectors, as saying that Saudi Arabia would make "considerable investments" in the construction of TAPI.

3)Talks to resume with Iran on Iran Pakistan gas pipeline, August 9 Iranian deputy minister of petroleum for international affairs Amir Hoseein Zamani-Nia has said that Iran welcomes continuation of talks with Pakistan on the gas pipeline project.