GAS FIELD

Turkmenistan will provide loans to Afghanistan to fund TAPI, Waliullah Shahin, chairman of the Center for Strategic Studies of the Afghan Foreign Ministry said, Orient reports.

“We have agreed with Turkmenistan to provide loans to Afghanistan to repay the costs that Afghanistan demands, and Afghanistan will repay in the future with operating costs,” he said.

Shahin also said that 7 agreements with colleagues on the TAPI gas pipeline will be signed soon.

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said 17 new petrochemical plants are planned to be inaugurated across the country during the current Iranian calendar year (ends on March 20, 2021), Tasnim news agency reported.

Speaking in a meeting of the surge in production headquarters on Wednesday, Zanganeh noted that the implementation of the new projects is going to bring the country $6 million of revenues every year.

From December 2009 to December 2019, from Central Asia, mainly from Turkmenistan, to China were delivered 294.6 billion cubic meters of natural gas, “Trend.az” reports, citing an information of the “Xinhua” news agency from the 6-th of January, 2020.

The “Xinhua” news agency cites data from the “PetroChina West Pipeline Company”. Turkmen gas operations have benefited more than 500 million people in 27 provincial-level administrative units, as well as in the Special Administrative Region of Xianggang, the release said.