I'll just point out that Afghanistan has no oil, no pipeline, and none will be built what with all that has happened there.
With all due respect, you are wrong.
Before you take a look at the link below and read the news of the pipeline about to be built in Afghanistan, let me kindly remind you that the "preferred US company" UNOCAL is the US oil company that Hamid Karzai worked as a consultant for, at about the time when he negotiated with the Taliban for this very pipeline:
news.bbc.co.uk
Afghanistan hopes to strike a deal later this month to build a $2bn pipeline through the country to take gas from energy-rich Turkmenistan to Pakistan and India.
Afghan interim ruler Hamid Karzai is to hold talks with his Pakistani and Turkmenistan counterparts later this month on Afghanistan's biggest foreign investment project, said Mohammad Alim Razim, minister for Mines and Industries told Reuters.
"The work on the project will start after an agreement is expected to be struck at the coming summit," Mr Razim said.
<BThe construction of the 850-kilometre pipeline had been previously discussed between Afghanistan's former Taliban regime, US oil company Unocal and Bridas of Argentina.
The project was abandoned after the US launched missile attacks on Afghanistan in 1999.
US company preferred
Mr Razim said US energy company Unocal was the "lead company" among those that would build the pipeline, which would bring 30bn cubic meters of Turkmen gas to market annually.
Unocal - which led a consortium of companies from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Japan and South Korea - has maintained the project is both economically and technically feasible once Afghan stability was secured.
"Unocal is not involved in any projects (including pipelines) in Afghanistan, nor do we have any plans to become involved, nor are we discussing any such projects," a spokesman told BBC News Online.
The US company formally withdrew from the consortium in 1998.
Here's a bit of info on Hamid Karzai and his oil background:
lemonde.fr
eurasianet.org.
globalresearch.ca
corpwatch.org
greenpartyus.org |
