... construction in Pakistan, while India has withdrawn from the project altogether. TAPI enjoys strong U.S. support, but Afghanistan’s instability, as well as its limited financial resources, remain a deterrent.
Maria Chepurina, Mathieu Lemonie:
“The TAPI project: Turkmenistan’s bet in pipeline geopolitics”
The weakest link of the IP Gas and TAPI projects are Pakistan’s guarantees of uninterrupted supplies to India. The political and military standoff between the two countries might undermine the prospects ...
... and Turkish languages, which both belong to the same group within the Turkic language family). Additionally, territorial factors increase the roles of Iran and the Persian Gulf countries.
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Maria Chepurina, Mathieu Lemoine:
The TAPI project: Turkmenistan’s bet in pipeline
geopolitics
Migration from Turkmenistan also has a number of specific qualitative features. During the Soviet period and up to the collapse of the USSR, the non-Turkmen population – largely concentrated in the ...
... same period in 2015. In 2015, Turkmengaz accounted for over 81 per cent of all gas exports to China by pipeline, BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy shows. On the other side,
35.8 per cent of the natural gas
imported by China originated from Turkmenistan.
In other words, the TAPI project is essential for Ashgabat to avoid dependence and reliance on Beijing, after having depended on Moscow for decades. Diversifying its partners is therefore a priority for Turkmenistan.
Diversification of the country’s economic structures ...
