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Aug 28, 2013 Iran and Oman (its southern Arab neighbor) have signed a draft agreement to build a pipeline for the export of Iranian natural gas. Iran’s official IRNA news agency says the memorandum of understanding was signed between Iran’s Oil Minister, Bijan Namdar Zanganeh and his Omani counterpart in Tehran. The report did not provide further details but said the two sides agreed to begin construction of the pipeline « in a short period of time. » The ...

Aug 24, 2013 Notwithstanding US opposition to its gas pipeline project with Iran, Pakistan is looking at the possibility of extending it to China as part of a planned economic corridor. Pakistani and Chinese officials will discuss the laying of the gas pipeline from Gwadar to western China in a meeting to be held. They will also take up a proposal about constructing an oil pipeline between the two countries. The two sides will sign a memorandum ...

Aug 23, 2013 Pakistan has decided to boycott the 22 August talks about the TAPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India) pipeline project. This comes in the wake of violation of the line of control agreement between India and Pakistan. Both sides have launched attacks at each other during the last few weeks resulting in several casualties on both sides of the border. The on-going peace process between both India and Pakistan has, as a result of this border ...

Aug 08, 2013 A pipeline carrying oil from Iraq to world markets has been shut by authorities due to an explosion in Turkey. Local media reports cited Kurdish rebels as the cause of the blast, which is the second such incident in two weeks. Turkey’s pipeline company, BOTAS, said the explosion occurred late on 5 August 2012 near the south-eastern town of Midyat, and damaged the pipeline running from Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, to the Turkish Mediterranean port ...