巴基斯坦期待从伊核协议受益

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.

巴基斯坦希望成为伊核协议最早的受益国之一。预计一个长期停顿的天然气管道工程最终将得以完成。中国资金将为实现这个目标提供巨大帮助。

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

巴基斯坦多年来一直计划修建一条管道，从伊朗进口天然气，以缓解严重的能源短缺。

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.

但对伊朗的制裁使管道工程陷于停顿。因此巴基斯坦计划在中国的帮助下开始一个并行的项目，在南部港口城市瓜达尔修建一个液化天然气终端，用一条700公里长的管道连接巴基斯坦其他地区。

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.

这个项目预计10月开工，两年半完成。巴基斯坦石油部长阿巴西说，这条管道在适当时候将与伊朗-巴基斯坦天然气管道连接。

“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.”

他说：“制裁取消之后，我们需要修建的管道就只剩下80公里了，大约用6个月的时间就可以建成。”

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

阿巴西说，项目资金将来自巴基斯坦和中国，但主要来自中国。

“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.”

他说：“这是个20亿美元的项目，85%来自中国承包商，其余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.

瓜达尔港也是中巴经济走廊的核心。中巴经济走廊将开辟连接中国西部地区和海洋的通道，大大降低中国向中东和欧洲出口商品的运输时间和成本。