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by Drillbits & Tailings
Volume 6, Number 8, October 31, 2001
SOURCE: Taliban; Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia,
by Ahmed Rashid, Yale University Press Books, 2001.
1. Enron/Wing Merril
BOTAS/ Gama Guris:
ROUTE: Turkmenistan ˆ Azerbaijan ˆ Turkey
DETAILS: Under Caspian Sea
COST: US$2.5 billion
STATUS: Contract for a Turkmenistan-turkey pipeline under the Caspian
Sea signed in 1999 by consortium made up of Bechtel Group and US General
Electric.
2. Unocal, Delta Oil,
Turkmenrosgaz
ROUTE: Turkmenistan ˆ Pakistan - Afghanistan
DETAILS: 937 miles
COST: US$2.5 billion
STATUS: Suspended
3. Birdas ˆ TAP
ROUTE: Turkmenistan ˆ Pakistan - Afghanistan
DETAILS: 750 miles
COST: US$2.5 billion
STATUS: Suspended
4. Royal Dutch Shell, Gaz
de France, Snamprogetti, Turkmenistan
ROUTE: Turkmenistan ˆ Iran ˆ Turkey
DETAILS: 1,875 miles
COST: US$2 billion
STATUS: Stalled
5. Mitsubishi, ExxonMobil,
China, Turkmenistan
ROUTE: Turkmenistan ˆ Kazakhstan ˆ China - Japan
DETAILS: 5,000 miles
COST: US$22 billion
STATUS: Stalled
6. China ˆ Iran ˆ
Turkmenistan
ROUTE: Kazakhstan ˆ Turkmenistan ˆ Iran ˆ Persian Gulf
DETAILS: 1,500 miles
COST: US$2.5 billion
STATUS: Stalled
7. 120-mile-long gas
pipeline connecting Iran-Turkmenistan opened in December 1997
SOURCE: Taliban; Militant
Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, by Ahmed Rashid, Yale
University Press Books, 2001.
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