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GAIL keen on trans-Saharan gas pipeline
New Delhi 25-Jul-2007
State-run gas firm GAIL (India) Ltd was keen on joining the $13-bUlion Trans-Saharan gas pipeline that would supply gas from Africa to the European market, company Chairman and Managing Director U D Choubey said on Tuesday. "We have envisaged interest and are keen to participate in the project," he told reporters here. Once built, the 4,300-km line would transport gas from the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria through Niger and into Algeria and Europe. Nigeria, Algeria, and Niger hope to start gas exports via the proposed 18-25 billion cubic meters a year Trails-Sahara gas pipeline (TSGP) in 2015. According to the feasibility report published by engineering company Penspen Consulting, TSGP would comprise a 48-56^inch pipeline from Nigeria to Algeria's Mediterranean coast at Beni Saf and subsea pipelines of 20-inch between Beni Saf and Spain. "We being gas transportation and marketing company see a lot of synergy in participation in the transnational project, "he said.
New Delhi 25-Jul-2007
State-run gas firm GAIL (India) Ltd was keen on joining the $13-bUlion Trans-Saharan gas pipeline that would supply gas from Africa to the European market, company Chairman and Managing Director U D Choubey said on Tuesday. "We have envisaged interest and are keen to participate in the project," he told reporters here. Once built, the 4,300-km line would transport gas from the Niger Delta in southern Nigeria through Niger and into Algeria and Europe. Nigeria, Algeria, and Niger hope to start gas exports via the proposed 18-25 billion cubic meters a year Trails-Sahara gas pipeline (TSGP) in 2015. According to the feasibility report published by engineering company Penspen Consulting, TSGP would comprise a 48-56^inch pipeline from Nigeria to Algeria's Mediterranean coast at Beni Saf and subsea pipelines of 20-inch between Beni Saf and Spain. "We being gas transportation and marketing company see a lot of synergy in participation in the transnational project, "he said.