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Pipeline Integrity: The case of TAPI

December 13, 2015 witnessed yet another milestone in the making of TAPI gas ieline ro!ect,

when in a gro"nd breaking ceremony, T"rkmenistan la"nched a #10 billion T"rkmenistan$

Afghanistan$Pakistan$India gas ieline% The ieline with a stretch of 1,&1' km, which co"ld

hel ease energy deficits in (o"th Asia, is said to be oerational by 201)%

The c"rrent "sh to TAPI gas ieline is seemingly as a res"lt of its str"ggle to transort its gas

reser*es to the market% Desite ha*ing the fo"rth largest nat"ral gas reser*es in the world with

+1 trillion c"bic feet of ro*ed reser*es