VOL. XL

No. 44

3-November-1997

FSU

Unocal Heads Consortium To Build Gas Pipeline Through Afghanistan

An eight-member consortium was established in Turkmenistan's capital, Ashgabat, on 25October for the purpose of constructing a natural gas pipeline from Turkmenistan toPakistan through Afghanistan. The consortium, named the Central Asia Gas Pipeline Ltd.(CentGas), is headed by Unocal of the US which, with its partner Delta Oil of SaudiArabia, has been pursuing the project for more than a year,...