巴基斯坦期待從伊核協議受益

Pakistan is hoping to be one of the early beneficiaries of the nuclear deal Iran has struck with six world powers. A long stalled gas pipeline project is expected to finally be completed. And Chinese money will go a long way towards reaching that goal.

巴基斯坦希望成爲伊核協議最早的受益國之一。預計一個長期停頓的天然氣管道工程最終將得以完成。中國資金將爲實現這個目標提供巨大幫助。

Pakistan has been planning to build a pipeline to import gas from Iran for years—to help with its crippling energy shortage.

巴基斯坦多年來一直計劃修建一條管道，從伊朗進口天然氣，以緩解嚴重的能源短缺。

But work on the pipeline was stalled due to sanctions on Iran. So Pakistan planned a parallel project with the help of China - a liquid natural gas or LNG terminal on its southern port city Gwadar, with a 700 kilometer long pipeline to other areas of the country.

但對伊朗的制裁使管道工程陷於停頓。因此巴基斯坦計劃在中國的幫助下開始一個並行的項目，在南部港口城市瓜達爾修建一個液化天然氣終端，用一條700公里長的管道連接巴基斯坦其他地區。

The project is expected to start in October and take 30 months to build. And Pakistan’s petroleum minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi says the same pipeline will turn into the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline when the time comes.

這個項目預計10月開工，兩年半完成。巴基斯坦石油部長阿巴西說，這條管道在適當時候將與伊朗-巴基斯坦天然氣管道連接。

“So as soon as we see that the sanctions are lifted or being lifted, there’s only 80 kilometer stretch of pipeline that we have to build. And that can be built in about six months.”

他說：“制裁取消之後，我們需要修建的管道就只剩下80公里了，大約用6個月的時間就可以建成。”

The petroleum minister explained that funding for this project will be provided by both Pakistan and China, but mostly China.

阿巴西說，項目資金將來自巴基斯坦和中國，但主要來自中國。

“It’s a $2 billion project and 85 percent of it is being financed by the Chinese EPC company and 15 percent will be provided by the Ministry of Petroleum.”

他說：“這是個20億美元的項目，85%來自中國承包商，其餘15%由巴基斯坦石油部提供。”

The same Pakistani port will be at the heart of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor — which plans to join western China to the sea, and drastically reduce shipping times and costs from China to the Middle East and Europe.

瓜達爾港也是中巴經濟走廊的核心。中巴經濟走廊將開闢連接中國西部地區和海洋的通道，大大降低中國向中東和歐洲出口商品的運輸時間和成本。