Gas pipeline “North – South” will be “Pakistani Stream”

Russia and Pakistan rename a joint project for the construction of the North-South gas pipeline in Pakistani Flow. The corresponding changes are contained in the protocol approved by the Russian Government to change the implementation of the gas pipeline project.

“make the following changes in the agreement: a) in the name of the Agreement of the word” north-south “shall be replaced by the words” Pakistani Stream “,” the document says, RBC reports.

The construction of the country’s gas pipe construction was signed in October 2015. The length of the gas pipeline will be 1.1 thousand km, bandwidth is 12.4 billion cubic meters. m per year. He will have to tie the South Parakistan port city of Karachi, where there are terminals for the admission of liquefied gas, with the city of Lahore in the north of the country. In June 2017, it was decided to postpone the construction of the gas pipeline for 2019. Last year, the adviser to Pakistan Prime Minister Nadym Babar in an interview with Bloomberg stated that the construction of the gas pipeline will begin in July 2021.