India, Iran to seal gas pipeline deal 'by next month': oil minister

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

MADRID (AFP) — India expects to sign a deal "by next month" on a pipeline that will transport gas across the subcontinent from Iran, Indian oil minister Murli Deora told AFP on Thursday.

He said the 7.5-billion-dollar (4.7-billion-euro) project to bring gas from Iranian fields to India and Pakistan had been discussed on the sidelines of the World Petroleum Congress industry event, which ended in Madrid Thursday.

"We discussed this here again yesterday (Wednesday). There should be an end to dialogue now," Deora said in an interview with AFP at the World Petroleum Congress in Madrid when asked about the project.

"The only issue is where to take the delivery, the delivery point," he said, adding the two options were on the India-Pakistan border or the...