Iranian President Inaugurates Serajeh Gas Storage Facility

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has officially inaugurated the first underground natural gas storage facility of the Middle East in the Qom province.

According to the report of the public relations of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), the first natural gas storage facility in Iran and the Middle East was officially inaugurated on Saturday in the city of Qom.

The Serajeh facility has the capacity to store 3.3 billion cubic meters of gas.

There is the possibility to draw 9.8 million cubic meters of gas per day from the facility during the cold days.

Up to now, more than 700 million cubic meters of gas have been stored in Serajeh gas storage facility.

It’s worth mentioning that, the facility plays a strategic role in meeting gas needs of the country.

By launching the first gas storage facility near Qom, Iran ranks 19 among the 34 countries possessing gas storage technology in the world but the country is expected to place the fifth in the world in 2015, the final year of Fifth Five Year Development Plan.

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LNG World News Staff, January 06, 2013