“We hope that, by the end of 2003, one of three gas pipeline projects is finalized,” said Munawar Baseer Ahmad, managing director of the state-run Sui Southern Gas Co. “If construction doesn’t start by 2006, we won’t get the gas on time when we need it in 2009-10,” he said in an interview. One of the projects under discussion would carry natural gas from Iran to Pakistan and India. The others are a Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan pipeline, and a subsea pipeline from Qatar to Pakistan. Pakistan now produces about 70MMcum of gas a day, but demand is currently at around 96MMcm/d; imported fuel oil makes up most of the energy shortfall. Pakistan's import bill for crude oil and petroleum products reached US$2.8 billion in the year to 30 June, 2002, and is expected to be higher this year because of rapidly-rising oil prices and higher domestic demand.