On 7 December Pakistan’s Ministry of Petroleum hosted a meeting bringing together Chairperson of TAPI Pipeline Company Ltd Mukhammetrmyrat Amanov and Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources.
In the course of the meeting the sides discussed joint activities and plans to build the TAPI pipeline.
According to the news agency TOLO news, Amanov asked Minister Sarwar Khan to have an inaugural ceremony for the Pakistan section of the gas pipeline in March 2019 in Pakistan and launch the construction works in 2019.
Sarwar Khan agreed that the project should be completed at the earliest.
The website Times of Islamabad reports that Pakistan’s Minister announced that the total value of the pipeline is estimated at $8,5 billion with 5% accounting for Pakistan.
Judging by the photo posted by the news outlet, TAPI Chairperson presented Sarwar Khan with the book authored by President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov “Turkmenistan, the heart of the Great Silk Road”.
Photo by timesofislamabad.com
Let us recall that in mid November Amanov said that the value of the TAPI project was decreased to $7 billion, from an initial estimate of $10 billion.
A week late Turkmenistan purchased pipes worth $40 mln for the construction of the TAPI Turkmen leg, despite the fact that it had been previously reported that the construction works had already been completed on the territory of Turkmenistan.