[A-List] India, Pakistan To Begin Work On Iran Pipeline

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Press Trust of India
December 17, 2005


India, Pakistan to begin work on Iran pipeline in 2007



New Delhi - India and Pakistan today agreed to begin
construction of the over 7-billion dollar
Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline by mid-2007 so that
the first gas flows by the end of 2010.
Initially, India will draw 60 million standard cubic
meters per day from the over 2,100-km pipeline project
and ramp it up to 90 mmscmd in next 2-3 years while
Pakistan would start with 30 mmscmd and double its
offtake by 2013, Pakistan's Petroleum Secretary Ahmad
Waqar said here.

The three countries, which till now have been meeting
only bilaterally -- India has held talks with Pakistan
and Iran separately and Pakistan with Iran separately
-- will for the first time hold a trilateral meeting
in early February 2006 in Tehran.

The meeting would address the issues relating to the
project, including an integrated feasibility study,
project structure and tri-partite framework agreement.

"The project structure (how the project will be built
and operated) and the Framework Agreement (the
agreement between India, Pakistan and Iran on the
pipeline) will be finalised by April 2006," Petroleum
Secretary S C Tripathi told reporters at the end of
two-day meeting of the Indo-Pak Joint Working Group on
the project here.

Ahmad Waqar, who led the Pakistani side a the third
JWG, said a technical sub-working group would be set
up to sort out issues like transportation tariff,
transit fee payable to Pakistan, system configuration,
pipeline route and pricing mechanism.

The sub-group would meet on a monthly basis to resolve
the issue before the next JWG meeting in early March
2006.
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Xinhua News Agency
December 16, 2005


3rd round talks of Indo-Pak-Iran pipeline start


NEW DELHI - India and Pakistan have started Round
Three of discussions on the structure of Indo-Pak-Iran
pipeline. Both sides hoped for a positive outcome from
the talks.

The two-day talks that began on Friday are being
co-chaired by Indian Petroleum secretary S.C. Tripathi
and Pakistani counterpartAhmad Waqar, Indo-Asian News
Service reported.

India had already sent its proposal on the project
structure toPakistan. The structure will now be taken
up during discussion.

These talks will be followed by a round of talks
between India and Iran. Meanwhile, Pakistan is likely
to brief India about their discussions with Iran.

It could take the three nations about six months
before they can raise the dialogue at a trilateral
level.

After the three nations have finalized the framework,
officials of the Indian petroleum ministry said that
the governments will not have to be involved all the
time.

The oil import deal will be negotiated for 25 to 30
years.





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