{"id":22386,"date":"2026-09-22T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/22\/turkmenistan-tapi-project-herat-section-completion-year-end\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T09:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:41:53","slug":"turkmenistan-tapi-project-herat-section-completion-year-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/22\/turkmenistan-tapi-project-herat-section-completion-year-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkmen Ambassador Says Herat Section of TAPI Project to Be Completed by Year-End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tajjan Moolamov, Turkmenistan\u2019s ambassador to Pakistan, said the construction of the Sarhadabad-Herat section of the TAPI project is expected to be completed by the end of this calendar year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Uzbek media on Tuesday, 31 September, Moolamov said that once this section is completed, the way will be cleared for natural gas to begin flowing to Afghanistan in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>He made the remarks during the \u201cAmbassadors\u2019 Dinner 2026\u201d programme, which was organised by the Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>Moolamov also said that implementing the TAPI project and other regional energy projects could help ensure a stable energy supply and create new opportunities for Pakistan\u2019s industrial and economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Turkmen ambassador, his country views the TAPI project as one of the important routes for providing cleaner energy, sustainable economic growth in the region and strengthening regional cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>The TAPI project is a gas pipeline carrying Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India and is regarded as one of the region\u2019s major energy initiatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkmenistan says the Herat section of the TAPI gas pipeline will be completed by year-end, paving the way for gas flow to Afghanistan in 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}