Project Profile

Value: US$10 billion
Location: Quetta, Multab, Fazilka, Daultebabd Gas Field, Herat and Kandahar
Length: 1,814 km
Capacity: 33 bcm per year of natural gas
Operational: December 2020

TAPI aims to export up to 33 bcm per year of natural gas from the Galkynysh field, which has 453 bcm of gas reserves, in Turkmenistan through the 1,814 km long pipeline.

The Afghanistan-Pakistan section has a length of 1,600 km and includes several compressor and metering stations.

Under the plan, 38 mcm per day of gas will go to India and Pakistan each while 14 mcm per day will be bought by Afghanistan.

The pipeline will allow landlocked Turkmenistan to diversify its gas export markets to the southeast. Construction officially started at the end of 2015 and the pipeline had been originally set to become operational in 2018. But that deadline has been reset to late 2020 and may slip again until the early 2020s.

Operators:

TAPI Pipeline Company Limited

The TAPI consortium was formed by Turkmengaz with 85%, while GAIL (India), Pakistan\'s ISGS and Afghan Gas Enterprise eachown 5%.

Contractors:

ILF: ILF Consulting Engineers signed a contract with TAPI Pipeline Company Limited to develop Front End Engineering and Design and to provide project management and technical supervision services for the Afghanistan–Pakistan section of the Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India (TAPI) natural gas pipeline.

Penspen Group: Feasibility study and carry out a technical feasibility study for a proposed 1820 km, 56 in. diameter pipeline from Turkmenistan’s giant Galkynysh Gas Field. On-going support to ADB during the investor selection process.

Royal HaskoningDHV: Engineering, consultancy and project management firm to undertake the important environmental and social safeguards components of the study. The Technical Feasibility Study is expected to take six months to complete, following which, Penspen and Haskoning will provide on-going support to ADB during the investor selection process