FWD: REGIONAL PIPELINE PLANS

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Energy Information Administration
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/afghan.html
REGIONAL PIPELINE PLANS

[..] In January 1998, the Taliban signed an agreement that would allow a
proposed 890-mile, $2-billion, 1.9-billion-cubic-feet-per-day natural gas
pipeline project led by Unocal to proceed. The proposed pipeline would
transport gas from Turkmenistan's 45-Tcf Dauletabad gas field to Pakistan,
and most likely would run from Dauletabad south to the Afghan border and
through Herat and Qandahar in Afghanistan, to Quetta, Pakistan. The line
would then link with Pakistan's gas grid at Sui. Gas shipments had been
projected to start at 700 Mmcf/d in 1999 and to rise to 1.4 Bcf/d or higher
by 2002. In March 1998, however, Unocal announced a delay in finalizing
project details due to Afghanistan's continuing civil war. [..]

On December 8, 1998, Unocal announced that it was withdrawing from the
Centgas consortium, citing low oil prices and turmoil in Afghanistan as
making the pipeline project uneconomical and too risky.


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