TAPI输气管道项目稳步推进

据10月9日Trend 报道，土库曼斯坦总统别尔德穆哈梅多夫已经接见了新任命的阿富汗大使Najibullah Alikhel。在会议上，各方特别关注了各国联合基础设施项目的执行情况。并且强调了建造土库曼斯坦-阿富汗-巴基斯坦-印度(TAPI)天然气管道的重要性。与此同时，还注意到相互关联的项目的重要性，即沿土库曼-阿富汗-巴基斯坦(TAP)路线铺设电力线和光纤通信。

会议强调，阿什哈巴德关于建立多种运输方式的过境和运输走廊的倡议也是为了促进阿富汗社会经济的复兴，使其不断地融入区域和世界经济关系系统。据土库曼斯坦国家通讯社报道，这些大型项目的实施为优化欧亚之间的交流沟通开辟了广阔的前景。

铺设TAPI天然气管道土库曼段的施工工程，计划到2019年底完成，该工程施工段于2015年12月开始施工。阿富汗施工工程段建设于2018年2月启动。巴基斯坦计划今年开始TAPI项目。

还报告了进行的地质和技术调查、土壤、地形研究;选择承包商和供应商的国际投标;解决管道建设用地分配和运营问题。

项目有关公司是来自阿富汗、巴基斯坦和印度的天然气公司，它们成立了TAPI管道有限公司联合体，以土库曼斯坦国家石油公司为首。作为项目交易顾问的亚洲开发银行(ADB)正在推动该项目。

TAPI的资源基础将是Galkynysh气田，这是世界上第二大天然气田(仅次于伊朗的South Pars气田)。年输气330亿立方米的TAPI输气管道总长约1840公里。阿富汗过境的不稳定性仍然是一个巨大的障碍，但是喀布尔表示，能够确保这条路线的安全。

邹勤 摘译自 Trend

原文如下：

Turkmenistan, Afghanistan mull TAPI gas pipeline project

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has received the newly appointed Afghan Ambassador Najibullah Alikhel, who presented his credentials, Trend reports referring to the Turkmen government Oct. 9.

At the meeting, special attention was paid to the implementation of joint infrastructure projects by the countries.

In this context, the importance of the construction of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline was emphasized. At the same time, the importance of interconnected projects was also noted - the laying of power lines and fiber optic communications along the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) route.

During the meeting, it was emphasized that Ashgabat’s initiatives to form multimodal transit and transport corridors are also aimed at Afghanistan’s socio-economic revival, its consistent integration into the system of regional and world economic relations. The implementation of these large-scale projects opens up great prospects for optimizing transport flows throughout the Eurasian space, the Turkmenistan State News Agency reported.

The operations on laying the Turkmen section of the TAPI gas pipeline are planned to be completed till late 2019, the construction of which was launched in December 2015. The construction of the Afghan section was launched in February 2018. Pakistan plans to begin the operations on TAPI this year.

It was also reported about the conducted geological and technical surveys, soil research, terrain; international tenders for the selection of contractors and suppliers; resolving the issues on the allocation of land plots for the construction of pipelines, as well as their operation. The buyers are gas companies from Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.

The participating countries established the TAPI Pipeline Company Limited consortium, the leader of which was Turkmengas state concern. The project is being promoted by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), which acts as a project transaction advisor.

TAPI's resource base will be Galkynysh field, the second biggest gas field in the world (after South Pars field in Iran). The total length of the TAPI gas pipeline with a capacity of 33 billion cubic meters of gas per year will be approximately 1,840 kilometers. Instability in transit Afghanistan remains a great obstacle, but Kabul says it will be able to ensure the safety of the route.