- Bridas Corporation
Bridas Corporation is an independent oil and gas holding company based in Argentina.
Operations
Bridas Corporation has focused in the South America Southern Cone and Central Asia. Its activities includes four principal areas of operations:
* exploration and development of oil and gas reserves and the production of oil and gas;
* marketing and transportation of oil, gas and oil products;
* gathering, treatment, processing and distribution of gas and power generation;
* drilling and well services.cite web
publisher=OilVoice
url=http://www.oilvoice.com/Description/Bridas_Corporation/e67b6a93.aspx
title= Bridas Corporation - Description
accessdate=2008-06-30]Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline controversy
In 1997, Bridas was one of two companies negotiating with the
Taliban to built the Trans-Afghanistan Gas Pipeline fromTurkmenistan to Pakistan. Another company wasUnocal .cite news
publisher=BBC
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/west_asia/37021.stm
title= Taleban in Texas for talks on gas pipeline
date = 1997-12-04
accessdate=2008-06-30] Although the agreement with Unocal-led corporation CentGas was reached, the deal later failed. The failure was believed to be because the deal was going to be struck with Bridas.cite news
publisher=BBC
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/s/w_asia/44521.stm
title= Taleban says it's ready to sign Turkmen pipeline deal
date = 1998-01-04
accessdate=2008-06-30] The pipeline was not built, due to instability in Afghanistan an inability of CentGas and the Taliban to come to a mutually acceptable economic understanding although rumours about a deal with Bridas were widespread.cite news
publisher=BBC
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/west_asia/21007.stm
title= Afghan Pipeline Deal Close
date = 1997-11-03
accessdate=2008-06-30] In 2006, Bridas indicated interest to continue with Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline project.cite news
publisher=Environmental News Service
url=http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2006/2006-04-17-05.asp
title= Afghanistan's New Pipeline Deal May Be Just Another Pipe Dream
author = Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi; Amanullah Nasrat
date = 2006-04-17
accessdate=2008-06-30]References
External links
* [http://www.bridascorp.com/ Bridas Corporation]
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