India Willing to Supply 400 mcf Gas to Pakistan

India is willing to export 400 million cubic feet of gas per day to Pakistan but final decision would depend on tariff rate.

Gas would be imported from India only if the tariff is finalised on "the lower side", Pakistan’s petroleum and natural resources minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi said, Press Trust of India reported.

Abbasi said a delegation from state-run GAIL, India's largest gas transmission and marketing company, had met him to assess Pakistan's willingness to import gas from India.

India would lay a pipeline from Jalandhar to Attari and then to Wagah. Once an agreement is finalised, the project will take at least one-and-half years to complete, Press Trust of India said. LNG would be gasified by the Indian side and pumped into the pipeline for Pakistan, the minister said.

Pakistan is facing severe gas shortage with a deficit of almost four billion cubic feet. The country is looking to source gas from all possible options.