Bangladesh wants to join TAPI pipeline project: Turkmenistan

Siddhartha P. Saikia Updated - March 12, 2018 at 02:24 PM.

Bangladesh is willing to join the proposed Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project.

"There was a request from Bangladesh to join the project. We require official note for this which will be considered by all the four governments of TAPI project," Kakageldy Abdullaev, acting Minister of Oil and Gas, Minerals of Turkmenistan, said at Petrotech 2012.

Asked about pricing of the gas to be wheeled through TAPI pipeline, he said, "I can only say that the price of gas in the project will be beneficial for everybody."

siddhartha.s@thehindu.co.in

Published on October 15, 2012 08:35