Pakistan Decides to Allocate 75% of TAPI Gas to Punjab

Pakistan government has decided to allocate majority of TAPI pipeline natural gas to Punjab.

The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved allocation of 75 percent of gas from to Sui Northern Gas Pipelines, which serves Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and twenty-five percent to Southern Gas Company, Radio Pakistan reported Sunday.

The approval was given during ECC's meeting held in Islamabad.

The 1,735km gas pipeline is expected to stretch from the largest gas field in Turkmenistan, Galkynysh, through Afghanistan’s provinces of Herat and Kandahar to Fazilka, area located between India and Pakistan.

Negotiation related to TAPI natural gas pipeline is at the final stage, India’s Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said in Parliament on Monday.

Last year, gas companies of Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India established a company that will build, own and operate the pipeline.

Kabul will host the next TAPI gas pipeline summit where the four nations will finalize the inception date of the project.