On December 2, Ussa Ussayev, an expert of CentralAsia.news, editor-in-chief of the «Nebit-gaz» newspaper, marked the importance of implementing the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) gas pipeline project. According to him, this pipeline will be a positive factor in reducing carbon emissions, as reported by electronic newspaper «Ussat news».
Ussayev noted that Turkmenistan actively supports the development of low-carbon energy and hydrogen as important directions in the energy sector. Thus, by 2030, the country plans to reduce the growth rate of carbon dioxide emissions to 118,1%.
Turkmen leader Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov has repeatedly stated that the TAPI gas pipeline project plays an important role in the formation of a new architecture for global energy security, recalled the expert.
Referring to the words of the head of TAPI Pipeline Company Ltd. Muhammetmyrat Amanov, the analyst noted that the transportation of gas through the corresponding pipeline creates a smaller volume of transport carbon dioxide emissions than the transportation of the same volume of natural gas to Pakistan and India using LNG technology. Natural gas is a clean and economical fossil fuel, added Ussayev.
In addition, an innovative approach to laying the gas pipeline will partially solve the problems in the field of environmental protection, underlined the observer.
At the final stage of the project, the annual capacity of the pipeline will be about 33 billion cubic meters.
