Turkmenistan to start work on TAPI gas project in December, 2015

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ASHGABAT: Turkmenistan will start building a $10 billion natural gas pipeline to Pakistan and India through Afghanistan in early December, a Turkmen government official said on Tuesday.

The Turkmen stretch of the TAPI pipeline, named after the countries it is designed to cross, will be built by a Turkmen state company with experience in building oil and gas pipelines, the official said on condition of anonymity.