Afghanistan Oil Pipeline

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Afghanistan Oil Pipeline was a proposed oil pipeline in Asia that is now cancelled.

Location

The pipeline would have originated in Türkmenabat, Azerbaijan, and terminated at the Arabian Sea Coast.

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Project Details

• Operator: Unocal
• Owner: Unocal
• Parent company: Chevron Corp.
• Capacity: 1,000,000 barrels per day
• Length: 1,600 kilometers / 994 miles
• Diameter:
• Status: Cancelled
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Background

The pipeline was proposed to transport oil from Azerbaijan and Central Asia through Afghanistan to Pakistan and/or India. In the 1990s, the American Unocal Corporation considered in addition to the Trans-Afghanistan Gas Pipeline building also a 1,000 mile (1,600 km) long 1,000,000 barrels per day (~5.0×107 t/a) oil pipeline to link Türkmenabat (former Chardzou), Turkmenistan to Pakistan's Arabian Sea Coast. Through the Omsk (Russia) – Pavlodar (Kasakhstan) – Shymkent – Türkmenabat pipeline, it would provide a possible alternative export route for regional oil production from the Caspian Sea. The pipeline was expected to cost US$2.5 billion. However, due to political and security instability, this project was cancelled.