Qatar is studying plans for a $3.5 billion, 1,600 km, mostly subsea pipeline to export 2 bcfd of natural gas to Pakistan.
Pakistan last year signed a memorandum of understanding with Crescent Petroleum Co., Sharjah, to conduct a feasibility study of the project (OGJ, May 25, 1992, Newsletter).
Crescent would lead an international croup to lay, own, and operate the pipeline. The pipeline could be on stream by 1998, provided World Bank guarantees for the project are obtained soon. It would extend from Qatar across the Persian Gulf to the United Arab Emirates, overland to and then across the Gulf of Oman, then hug the shorelines of Iran and Pakistan before terminating at Gadani, near Karachi.
Talks are under way with U.A.E. governments, notably Dubai, and Iran about using the line to export their gas to India and Pakistan.
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