Pak-Iran formally sign gas pipeline project

October 7th, 2009 BRUSSELS - Finland, which earlier raised environmental concerns over the proposed 1,200-km long Nord Stream gas pipeline project, is set to give its approval to the project, a report said Wednesday. Finland's Minister of European and Migration Affairs Astrid Thors expected his country to give an environmental approval to the project.

September 11th, 2009 LONDON - Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Murli Deora has denied reports that India has quit plans to build a gas pipeline with Iran and Pakistan. No, it's not off, Deora told journalists here Thursday.

September 6th, 2009 TEHRAN -) India has exited from a gas pipeline deal it earlier planned with Iran and Pakistan, Mehr news agency reported citing a Pakistani diplomat. India definitely quitted the IPI (India-Pakistan-Iran) gas pipeline deal, the report said citing Pakistani ambassador to Iran, Muhammad Bux Abbasi, as saying here Sunday.

September 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Iran will start laying the pipeline for gas supply in Pakistan next year, sources have said. The decision was made on Monday, the first day of three-day talks between officials of the two countries.

September 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline, which could be extended to India, will be operationalised by 2013, officials of the two countries decided at a meeting here. Quoting officials of the petroleum ministry, Online news agency reported that the feasibility report of project and other technical matters were discussed during the meeting on Monday.

May 29th, 2009 NICOSIA - Iran and Pakistan on Thursday signed in Tehran a deal for the supply of eight billion cubic meters of natural gas annually under an agreed price formula which has not been disclosed. Representatives of the two countries also signed an initial agreement for the construction of the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline, which is expected to cost more than 7.5 billion dollars and has been dubbed "The Peace Pipeline." It is expected that gas deliveries will start in three to four years.

May 26th, 2009 TEHRAN - India can still join the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project, the Iranian foreign ministry said, a day after Islamabad and Tehran signed a pact on the export of Iranian gas. "Up to now, no Indian official has stated his countrys withdrawal from the project and we hope they make their decision soon, Hojjatollah Ghanimifard, the representative of Iranian oil minister to the IPI talks, said Monday.

May 25th, 2009 TEHRAN - Tehran and Islamabad have signed a deal for supplying Iranian gas to Pakistan, IRNA reported. As part of the plan a pipeline will be laid between the two countries through which Iran would supply natural gas to Pakistan.

May 25th, 2009 TEHRAN - Pakistan and Iran signed an inter-governmental framework declaration to support the gas deal signed by the oil ministries of the respective countries. President Asif Ali Zardari and his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed the declaration on Sunday Earlier, the Gas Sale Purchase Agreement was signed by the managing directors of the National Iranian Oil Company and Pakistan's Inter-state Gas System for the export of Iranian natural gas to Pakistan at the border of Iran-Pakistan for domestic consumption in Pakistan, the Daily Times reports.

May 19th, 2009 KARACHI - Advisor to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Petroleum Dr Asim Hussain has said that Islamabad and Tehran will sign the agreement for the supply of gas under Iran Pakistan Gas Pipeline by the end of this month or next month. He said that Iran has nearly built the site for the supply of gas to at Pak-Iran border.

May 18th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran and Pakistan will hold the last round of the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline talks in Tehran next week, the special representative of Iran's oil minister to the talks has said. 'A Pakistani delegation headed by Minister of Petroleum and Natural Resources Asim Hussain is to arrive in Tehran May 23 to finalise the Peace Pipeline deal based on the new price formula,' Hojjatollah Ghanimifard was quoted as saying by Mehr news agency.

April 23rd, 2009 Iran says pipeline agreement reached with IraqTEHRAN, Iran — Iran's official news agency says Tehran has reached an agreement with Iraq to build a pipeline that will feed Iraqi crude to an Iranian refinery. The agreement marks another step in strengthening relations between two majority Shiite countries that fought a deadly eight-year war in the 1980s.

March 12th, 2009 LAHORE - President Asif Ali Zardari has said Pakistan will purchase gas from Iran even if India pulls out of the project, adding that he would discuss this possibility with the Iranian officials. The Daily Times quoted Zardari, as saying that Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project was in the best interest of Pakistan and Iran.

March 12th, 2009 LAHORE - President Asif Ali Zardari has said Pakistan will purchase gas from Iran even if India pulls out of the project, adding that he would discuss this possibility with the Iranian officials. The Daily Times quoted Zardari, as saying that Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project was in the best interest of Pakistan and Iran.

January 24th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iran has objected to the construction of an undersea oil pipeline linking Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan through the Caspian Sea, because it threatened the marine ecosystem, a media report said Saturday. Iran's deputy oil minister for international affairs, Hossein Noqrekar-Shirazi, said the undersea pipeline for supplying Kazakh oil to Azerbaijan poses threat to the Caspian ecosystem, Press TV reported.