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Afghan Pipe Dreams: Will Oil and Gas Giants Build a Central Asian Pipeline? Where?

Uzbekistan

Holiday In Wales Not everybody is convinced that Turkmenistan will be the source of a future pipeline in Central Asia. Joseph Naemi, an Iranian born businessmen who splits his time between Sydney, Australia, and Tashkent, Uzbekistan, is working on the possibility that Afghanistan's other major northern neighbor may be a better business bet.

Hamilton Township residents who have concerns about the new natural gas pipeline built through the township are asked to contact Mayor Glen Gilmore. Gilmore said he hasn't received any complaints about the pipeline since the project was completed, but wants to offer assistance to anyone with concerns. The pipeline, owned by the Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp. or Transco, follows the path of another pipeline built in the 1950s.

Holiday Wales "General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who controls much of the north, is Uzbek and is very close to the government of Uzbekistan. They share a certain sensibility," says Naemi.

The statement did not name any possible joint projects. stalled plans to build a pipeline to Pakistan.

Cottage Holiday In Wales He is not waiting for Unocal or other oil giants to come knocking. Naemi has set up Chase Energy, a small oil company based in Amsterdam, as a vehicle through which he plans to invest hundred of millions of dollars over the next five to seven years developing oil and natural gas fields in Uzbekistan, hoping eventually to export oil and gas to and through Afghanistan by pipeline. "We are small and flexible, we are the pioneers who are willing to take risks," he boasts.

Kazakhstan & Azerbaijan

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Caravan Holiday In Wales But for the moment both Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are wannabes in the competition to produce oil and gas for foreign markets in the region. The countries that have attracted the most foreign investment to date are the two other major Caspian Sea oil producers: Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.

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Camping Holiday Wales Last October, U.S. oil giant ChevronTexaco celebrated the opening of a new oil export route with the completion of a 1,000 mile pipeline, built from the Tengiz field in western Kazakhstan to the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk in Russia, at a cost of $2.6 billion.

(EUNN) India, Pakistan and Iran are moving forward with terms under a planned 1200 km gas pipeline despite objections from the US. About 800 km of the pipeline will pass through Pakistan, which the US says will place the energy resource under risk of attack by Islamic militants. "All three of us have agreed to go ahead with the pipeline proposal, " India's Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Murli Deora told reporters following a meeting of the three nations Ministers in Doha.

Accommodation Holiday Wales Next on the agenda is the construction of a 1,080 mile long pipeline from Azerbaijan, via Georgia, to Turkey. In July 2002, a consortium led by British Petroleum is expecting to begin land acquisition and construction of the pipeline, which is estimated to cost $2.9 billion.

Holiday Last Minute Wales For more on the Caspian Natural Gas Pipeline, read Pratap Chatterjee's article, Afghan Pipe Dreams.

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