This article (that you can access from the link below) is a good summary of all the main aspects of the TAPI pipeline. Specifically the author examines the:
This article (accessible from the link below) has a more optimistic view of the current situation of TAPI when compared to my previous post regarding the NYT text. Specifically, the authors point out that the current challenges that countries in Central and Southern Asia are facing, such as economic pressure and climate change, are pushing the countries in the region to collaborate.
The main takeaways are:
This article published by The New York Times (that you can access from the link below) is an analysis of the current situation between India and Pakistan. New Delhi accused Pakistan of orchestrating a suicide bombing that killed dozens of Indian soldiers in Kashmir, the worst attack there in decades, promising an appropriate response and calling on world leaders to isolate its neighbor.
Pakistan has denied involvement in the attack, but by Friday afternoon, India had recalled its ambassador to Pakistan for consultations in New Delhi.
The main takeaway of the article is that the current Indian government due to the national elections taking place in May will aim for a strong response to Pakistan’s actions in order not to look weak. Therefore, any cooperation between the two countries, such as the TAPI project, is currently susponded.
TAPI Group Minutes 20/03/19
Group Discussion
Group Briefing and Roles for Week 3:
Firstly, we agreed on a coherent format for all our blog entries. We decided that all articles have to be posted with a very short summary and the main arguments explained in bullet points. We also established not to post articles separately, but to rather use blog entries for different subtopics. In this way, we have a clearer overview of all the material, and we can just edit each subtopic to add new insights and articles within the already existing blog posts.
Secondly, we went through the background research that we carried out in the past week and we changed the structure of our project as follows:
Lastly, we assigned tasks to complete by next week to each team-member following the points presented above.
Roles for Week 2
The SGC would be a chance for Turkmenistan to deliver its gas to Europe. This would increase the diversification of European gas sources. (Although Russian gas firms are participating). Maros Sefcovic, vice president of the European Commissionn for energy confirmed that Turkmenistan will be involved in the plannings of the Southern Gas corridor.
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Here is the following information about Pakistan: General background and data regarding its economy, human rights situation, environmental/climate change issues, politics and energy.
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The Petroleum and Natural Gas Board (PNGB) has developed a vision of the natural gas energy sector. It’s projections of natural gas demand (much higher than IEA’s Outlook numbers, which I cited in the IEA article) and more information on details of the sector (I will continue to summarize this over the next days).
I was immediately interested if the Vision plan mentions TAPI, and it does. It says that it expects for TAPI to be likely completed by 2017 – 2018, and projects an additional gas availability of 30 mmscmd from this pipeline.
However it does not mention any details about the diplomatic efforts with the participating countries.
http://www.pngrb.gov.in/Hindi-Website/pdf/vision-NGPV-2030-06092013.pdf
I wanted to understand how important natural gas really is for India’s energy sector. This is to get a sense of how important would the natural gas supply from Turkmenistan be in the grand scheme of India’s energy supply. I looked at some articles from Indian news and institutions on natural gas specifically.
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Key facts:
Energy-related policies
Natural Gas – related
https://webstore.iea.org/weo-2015-special-report-india-energy-outlook
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TAPI: Proposed Turkmen-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India Gas Pipeline 
maxsteudel 2:09 pm on February 27, 2019 Permalink |
Hey Andrea,
I found this overview page of Turkmenistan at EIU. It predicts delays in TAPI and some articles even question the likelihood of success.
http://country.eiu.com/turkmenistan
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