Korpeje-Kordkuy Gas Pipeline
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Korpeje-Kordkuy Gas Pipeline (In Russian: Газопровод «Корпедже – Курткуи») is an operating gas pipeline in Turkmenistan and Iran.[1][2]
Location
The pipeline runs from Korpedzhe (the initial point) and Gamyshlydzha fields, Turkmenistan, to Kordkuy, Iran.[2][3]
Project Details
- Operator: Turkmengaz, National Iranian Gas Company[2]
- Owner: Turkmengaz, National Iranian Gas Company[2]
- Parent Company: Governments of Turkmenistan and Iran
- Capacity: 8 bcm/year[2][3]
- Length: 197 km[2]
- Diameter: 1,020 mm[3]
- Status: Operating[2]
- Start Year: 1997[2][3]
- Cost: USD 195 million[4]
- Financing: Iran's National Oil Engineering and Construction Company[4]
- Associated infrastructure:
Background
The Korpeje–Kordkuy pipeline is a 197-km (124-mi) natural gas pipeline from Korpeje field north of Okarem in western Turkmenistan to Kordkuy in Iran. 132 km of pipeline run in Turkmenistan while 65 km run in Iran.[5] In October 1995, the National Iranian Oil Company decided to build the pipeline to supply the remote northern part of Iran.[6] Iran financed 90% of construction costs, and was later paid back by gas deliveries.[6]The pipeline was inaugurated on 29 December 1997 by presidents Saparmurat Niyazov of Turkmenistan and Mohammad Khatami of Iran.[4]
In January 2017, Turkmenistan halted gas supplies to Iran due to a dispute between Turkmengaz and NIGC. Iran's debt to Turkmenistan stemmed from a 2020 International Court of Arbitration (ICA) ruling. In 2018, the parties sued each other in International Arbitration, which in 2020 presumably (neither party disclosed the final decision) sided with Turkmenistan. The Turkmen side demanded payment of $1.8 billion owed by Iran over Tehran's failure to pay for the gas it had imported between 2007 and 2013. In 2023, Deputy Minister of Oil and CEO of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Majid Chegeni announced that Iran had resumed gas imports from Turkmenistan. NIGC had repaid the debt by breaking it into three stages.[7]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ Korpeje-Kordkuy pipeline, Wikipedia, accessed April 2018
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 "Основные газопроводы Tуркменистана". www.mfa.gov.tm. Retrieved 2022-07-25.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Oil and Gas Industry of Turkmenistan" (PDF). www.petrofinder.com. March 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Iran-Turkey pipeline blast cuts gas flow -source". BBC. 1997-12-29. Retrieved 2009-01-31.
- ↑ "Сапармурат Ниязов принял участие в пуске газокомпрессорной станции на нефтегазовом месторождении Корпедже | Интернет-газета Turkmenistan.Ru". www.turkmenistan.ru (in русский). Retrieved 2022-07-25.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Olcott, Martha Brill (2006). "International gas trade in Central Asia: Turkmenistan, Iran, Russia and Afghanistan". In Victor, David G.; Jaffe, Amy; Hayes, Mark H. (eds.). Natural gas and geopolitics: from 1970 to 2040. Cambridge University Press. pp. 213–214. ISBN 978-0-521-86503-6. Retrieved 2009-11-29.
- ↑ "Turkmenistan Resumes Gas Exports to Iran, Increases Supplies to Azerbaijan". Caspian News. August 13, 2023. Retrieved September 6, 2023.
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External articles
Wikipedia also has an article on Kazi Magomed–Astara–Abadan pipeline (Kazi Magomed–Astara–Abadan pipeline). This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License].
