Iran Plans to Increase Daily Gas Export to 180 Mln Cubic Meters

June 11, 2012

Iran will be able to export as much as 180 million cubic meters of natural gas per day by 2016, deputy managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), Mostafa Kashkoli said.

Addressing 25th World Gas Conference, Kashkoli said: Over the fifth five year development plan to 2015, 12 new phases of South Pars Gas Field will be coming online, of which 4 phases have allocated to LNG.

According to the report of the public relations of the NIGC, He went on to say that Iran’s gas production capacity will reach 1.2 billion cubic meters of gas per day in 2016 of which 180 million cubic meters will be exported through gas pipelines and LNG carrier vessels.

He declared that allocating gas produced in four phases of South Pars Gas Field to exports to Europe, through a gas pipeline from Assaluyeh to Bazargan region, with transfer capacity of 110 million cubic meters per day, are among the other plans of the country in future.

He added that, the gas produced by another four phases of South Pars Gas Field will be allocated to exports to Pakistan and India while negotiations are underway for other possible routes which will turn Iran into a key player in the region as a source of supplying gas to customers.

Kashkoli pointed out to the country’s 35 thousand kilometers of high pressure gas grid stating the infrastructure enables Iran to transfer a big volume of gas from its borders with Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to Turkey and Persian Gulf.

It’s worth mentioning that Iran currently exports gas to Turkey and Armenia while swaps gas with Azerbaijan Republic.

Referring to Iran and Turkmenistan’s recent deals on raising the volume of gas imports from Turkmenistan to 14 billion cubic meters per year, the official said: Gas exports to Iraq, Syria and finally Europe is on the petroleum ministry’s agenda.

According to him, construction of a 200 kilometers gas pipeline, with 48 inches diameter, is the first step in gas trade with the neighboring country, Iraq.

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LNG World News Staff, June 11, 2012