By Niranjala Ariyawansha in Sunday Times, Aug 6, 2023The Government has decided to cancel a tender awarded to a China-Pakistan consortium to supply Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and lay a pipeline network after being selected through an international open competitive bidding process and instead consider an offer by an Indian company. The China-Pakistan Engro Consortium was selected last year as part of a step towards reducing the cost of power production. However, last Monday, Power…
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By Asiri Fernando in The Morning online, July15, 2023The Government will appoint a committee to evaluate the proposal submitted by the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) for an oil distribution pipeline connecting Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu to Trincomalee and Colombo, the Ministry of Power and Energy said yesterday (15). The proposal comes days before President Ranil Wickremesinghe is to visit New Delhi on the invitation of Indian Premier Narendra Modi. According to the Ministry of Power and…
by Bibi Amina Hakimi in ToloNews, July 9, 2023 at 9:59 PMThe Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (MoMP) said in a statement that the construction of a pipeline to transfer gas from Sheberghan to Mazar-e-Sharif began on Saturday. The project will cost 609 million Afs and will be funded by the interim government. The acting Minister of the MoMP, Shuhabuddin Delawar, said that the pipeline will be 95 km and that the project will be…
report on TOLOnews, Apr 29, 2023 at 8:41 PMIt has been two years since the Islamic Emirate takeover of the country, but there has been no reported start to practical work on the TAPI pipeline project. Previously, officials of the Islamic Emirate talked about beginning of practical work on this project. Some economists believe that the lack of support from the World Bank plus regional rivalries have caused the work on the project to be…
By Nazir Shinwari in TOLOnews, April 02, 2023 at 8:12 PMThe deputy Minister of Mines and Petroleum said that the technical study of the TAPI Pipeline Project has been completed and that there is no obstacle ahead of its implementation. Speaking ar a press conference, Deputy Minister Zia Rahman Aryoubi said that work is underway on land acquisition in the western province of Herat. “The technical work on the projects has been completed and currently…
By Amina Hakimi in Tolo News,09 Oct 2022 at 802 PM.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said that the delegation of the Islamic Emirate on a visit to Turkmenistan reached agreements on important issues related to the TAPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India) pipeline. According to a senior official of MoFA, the two sides reached an agreement on action plans for pipeline construction, the distribution of gas to industrial parks and residents of Herat, as well…