Gas: Myanmar dumps India for China

Never far from controversy, Myanmar has decided against sending gas to India, opting instead to tie-in with a Chinese company. The gas supply is crucial to India because of the Myanmar-Bangladesh-India pipeline.

TMCnet (Indian Express Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) reports that: "The gas supply from A-1 is important to India since Aiyar had planned to build a 290-km pipeline from Myanmar's west coast through Bangladesh to bring the gas to India's east coast. This Myanmar-Bangladesh-India pipeline was also expected to pool isolated gas in the northeast".

TMCnet's article titled Despite feeler, Myanmar gas goes to China, details a rather complex situation that also involves Daewoo and Korea Gas.