IPI gas talks next month

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan, Iran and India secretary level talks on multi-billion Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline project is likely to be held on the last week of December in Tehran, a government official told Online here on Sunday.
He said that Secretary Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources, Ahmad Waqar, would leave for Tehran in the last week of December along with five-member delegation included Adviser to the Prime Minister Mukhtar Ahmed, Director General Inter State Gas Pipeline Limited (ISGPL) Hasan Nawab.
He said that the secretaries of three countries would discuss Gas Reserve Certification and Allocation, Gas Quantity and Build-up, Gas Quality, System Configuration and Project Structure. Other matters of pipeline routing, delivery points, transportation tariff, transit fee, capital and operation costs and pipeline security would be discussed in the meeting, he said. He said that in this meeting both countries would enter into framework agreement. He said that price issue would be taken during the upcoming meeting between the officials of the three countries, as Pakistan and India wanted to settle the price according to its affordability.—Online