06.11.2013, 22:05
Zitat:Wed Nov 06, 2013 4:27<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920815000711">http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.as ... 0815000711</a><!-- m -->
NIGC Chief: Iran, Pakistan May Renegotiate Gas Export Price
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Last week, Iranian oil ministry announced that the country is likely to give up on the multi-billion-dollar pipeline project which was due to take its rich gas reserves to energy-hungry Pakistan.
The pipeline has almost been complete on the Iranian side since long ago, but the Pakistani side, which has long been under the United States' heavy pressures to give up the project, has been short of financing. Pakistan has run into repeated problems to pay for the 780 kilometer (485 mile) section to be built on its side of the border.
In a recent demand, Islamabad officials asked Iran to finance their part of the project as well.
...they had asked Iran to provide $2bln for the construction work...
Zunäschst sollte die iranische Seite die Pipeline mit 2Mrd.$ voll bezahlen. Jetzt, also nachdem ein Großteil der Pipeline inzwischen fertiggestellt ist, ist den Pakistanis plötzlich das Gas zu teuer geworden. :mrgreen: Zu den möglichen Hintergünden:
Zitat:Tue Nov 05, 2013 5:1<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13920815000711">http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.as ... 0815000711</a><!-- m -->
Pakistani Daily Reveals US Eavesdropping of Tehran-Islamabad Contacts on IP Pipeline
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“The US is not ready to show the smallest flexibility in its efforts to thwart the Pakistani government’s efforts (to launch the gas pipeline) and has used different methods, including exerting intense pressure, repeating concern, threatening to impose sanctions and even wiretapping the phone talks of the Iranian and Pakistani officials to abort the project,” Ahmad Jamal Nezami wrote in Pakistan’s Urdu-language Navay-e Vaqt on Tuesday.
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Der Exporteur beugt sich dem Druck des Importeurs, jedoch nicht den USA (die eine Aufgabe erzwingen möchten) und ist somit offenbar bereit, den Preis nachzuverhandeln. Das Bieten um die (Mis-)Gunst Pakistans geht damit in die nächste Runde.