INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The Acting Minister of Mines and Petroleum Hedayatullah Badri met with Murad Amanov, the executive director of
Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI), to discuss the need to speed up practical work on the project.Badri stated this applied to
the construction of camps, creation of jobs for local residents, gas distribution and the acquisition of private land in Herat city.He also
assured Amanov of the ministry&s full cooperation with the process of accelerating the TAPI gas pipeline project.&In this meeting, TAPI
project and various issues were discussed,& said Homayoun Afghan, a spokesman for the ministry.Experts have meanwhile said that the TAPI
project will have a significant effect on Afghanistan&s economy and with the construction of this pipeline, new sources of income will be
provided through the export of oil and gas.They said the proceeds earned from TAPI once completed can be invested in major infrastructure
projects.Once complete, the TAPI project will add approximately US$400 million to Afghanistan&s revenue annually, and it will create
thousands of direct and indirect employment opportunities for Afghans.Afghanistan will get 500 million cubic meters of gas in the first
decade, that will increase to 1 billion cubic meters in the second decade and 1.5 billion cubic meters in the 3rd decade.The post Mining
minister meets with TAPI head, stresses need to speed up project first appeared on Ariana News.
