(EnergyAsia, August 8 2015, Saturday) — Turkmengaz, Turkmenistan’s state-owned gas company, has been chosen to lead an international consortium to build, finance, own and operate a proposed 1,600-km to deliver natural gas from Central Asia to South Asia. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will continue to advise as well as help finance the US$7.6-billion pipeline to link up Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India (TAPI) with possible extensions to other countries in Asia.