Thailand Signs MOU on Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline Project

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Thailand Signs MOU on Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline Project

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Thailand has joined other member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) insigning a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Trans-ASEAN Gas Pipeline (TAGP) Project, the Thai News Agency reported Saturday.

Minister to the Prime Minister's Office Phongthep Thepkanjana was quoted as saying on Friday that the MOU on TAGP project was signed at the 20th ASEAN Energy Ministers' Meeting, held in Nusa Dua of Indonesia' resort island of Bali on July 5.

Phongthep, who oversees the National Energy Policy Office (NEPO), attended the meeting and signed the MOU on behalf of the Thai government.

Phongthep said that the MOU would be used as a broad framework among ASEAN member countries in coordinating and cooperating in studying the utilization, marketing, sale, and distribution of national gas.

The MOU would also be used as a central framework to push for the implementation and achievement of the TAGP project, he noted.

The TAGP project, which is expected to be funded by the total budget of seven billion US dollars, will link the 10-nation grouping's key natural gas distribution centers with the pipeline structure which connects with natural gas sources in the Gulf of Thailand, Sumatra, and the South China Sea, according to the Minister.

Seven potential interconnections have been identified under theTAGP project involving a total length of 4,500 km, four of which involve the supply of gas from Indonesia to neighboring ASEAN countries.

ASEAN now groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

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