ISLAMABAD: The 700-kilometre Gwadar-Nawabshah gas pipeline and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal projects will be completed within the given schedule – December 2017.
A Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources senior official on Wednesday said, “The projects will hopefully be completed by December 2017 with the financial assistance of China.”
He said that the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the federal cabinet has already approved construction of the Gwadar-Nawabshah pipeline.
The 42-inch diametre pipeline will be laid along with two compressor stations, while the terminal at Gwadar will have the capacity to handle up to 500 million cubic feet per day of gas.
He said the $1.5 billion project was being executed on build-operate-transfer (BOT) basis, adding that the pipeline will pass through Pasni, Ormara and Hingol before terminating at Nawabshah. In the next phase, the pipeline will extend to Lahore at a cost of $2 billion.
