SHANA -- A senior Iranian gas official said the countrys natural gas exports will cross 60 million cubic meter per day by the end of the current Iranian calendar to March 20 2019. Speaking to reporters, Hamidreza Araqi, deputy Iranian petroleum minister for gas affairs, said Irans total gas production will reach 250 bcm/y and its exports will hit ...

SHANA - A senior Iranian gas official says signature of gas deals with neighboring countries would ensure security of Iran as well as its neighbors. Deputy Petroleum Minister for Gas Affairs Hamir Reza Araghi said if Iran signs gas deals with its neighbors, the security of the regional countries would be interlinked, an important point in securing ...

SHANA Tehran is prepared to enhance its gas ties with neighboring Armenia, the managing director of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) says. Hamidreza Araghi said: "Besides a goods-for-gas deal between Iran and Armenia, Tehran is prepared to bolster its gas exports to Yerevan." He said based on the deal, Iran receives 3 kilowatt hours of electricity ...

SHANA National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) says the Iraqi city of Basra will be ready to import natural gas cargoes from Iran before the end of the current Iranian calendar year to March 20 2018. Hamidreza Araghi, managing director of NIGC, said Iran is prepared to start gas flow to Basra which has announced it would be ready to receive the gas ...

SHANA - Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Hamidreza Araghi voiced his company's readiness to transfer its gas experiences to neighboring countries like Afghanistan and Iraq. Speaking in a meeting with visiting Iraqi Deputy Oil Minister Hamid Younis Salih in Tehran on Tuesday, Araghi said Iran is ready to export some of ...

Financial Tribune - Hamidreza Araqi, managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), has denied speculations that his company is underselling gas to Turkey. "The so-called discount in gas exports to Turkey is in fact a compensation for a court ruling that NIGC overpriced its gas supplies to Turkey between 2011 and 2015," Araqi was ...

MNA NIGC managing director said negotiations had been held with the Iraqi side over banking issues and 50 million cubic meters of gas will be deployed to the neighboring country. Speaking on the sidelines of Iran Oil Show 2017, Managing Director of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Hamidreza Araghi said required facilities for gas supply were ...

Financial Tribune- Tehran is determined to take legal action against Ashgabat over a gas dispute that broke out at the end of last year, says the chief executive of National Iranian Gas Company. Turkmenistan halted natural gas supplies to Iran in late December, "but this wasn't part of the (gas export) deal with Iran and we are taking preliminary ...

FNA- Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Hamid Reza Araqi underlined that the country does not need Turkmenistan's gas as it does not affect the country's domestic needs. "Gas imports (from Turkmenistan) are not for commercial purposes or to address domestic needs," Araqi, also managing director of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), said on Saturday. He ...

Press TV- Iran welcomes Russian participation in the $2.5 billion construction of a pipeline to transfer Iranian gas to Europe, a deputy oil minister says. IGAT-9 is a 35 billion cubic meter per year pipeline that Iran plans to use to send gas from its giant South Pars field to Europe via Turkey. Russian companies have indicated interest in Irans ...

TEHRAN, Oct 03 (Shana) Managing Director of National Iranian Gas Company Hamid-Reza Araqi says new gas swap contracts will be signed. "We are seriously considering the gas swap contracts and to this effect, we are busy signing several contracts," said Araqi in the 26th Energy and Environment Committee session of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries,...

TEHRAN, Sept 28 (Shana) Deputy Minister of Petroleum for Gas Affairs Hamid-Reza Araqi says Iran and Turkmenistan will cooperate to access common gas market. "Access to the common gas market is on agenda of Iran-Turkmenistan cooperation," said Araqi in an address to the HSE seminar at the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC). Araqi said cooperation ...

Iran says it can increase its exports of natural gas to Turkey by 6 million cubic meters per day (mcm/d). Hamidreza Araqi, the managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), told the local media that the increase in exports of gas to Turkey can be implemented through the existing infrastructure. Araqi said that Iran is currently ...

  TEHRAN, May 02 (Shana) Managing Director of National Iranian Gas Company(NIGC) Hamidreza Araqi and the President of Korean Gas Corporation (KOGAS) Seung-Hoon Lee signed a Memorandum of Understanding to boost bilateral cooperation. In a ceremony held on Sunday, the two officials stressed development of all-out ties between Tehran and Seoul....

TEHRAN, Dec. 27 (Shana) The gas industry in Iran has the capacity to attract investment projects worth more than 40 billion dollars based on BOO and BOT methods following removal of sanctions, said managing director of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC). Through establishment of logical relations in the post-sanctions era, Iran can export gas ...

TEHRAN May 26(Shana)--The National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) has revised in natural gas prices for delivery to household and commercial sectors as well as state-owned institutions while it has decided to keep the prices unchanged for delivery to industries, petrochemical plants, power plants and the agricultural sector. Managing director of NIGC ...

Tehran, April 27, IRNA Managing Director of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Hamid-Reza Araqi said on Monday that Iraq is not ready yet to begin importing Iranian gas, but if Baghdad announces its readiness gas exports to Iraq will begin as of late May, 2015. 'During the first year Iran will export five million cubic meters of natural gas per ...

TEHRAN April 06(Shana)--9 towns and 1020 villages joined beneficiaries of gas services last year, Managing-director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Hamidreza Araqi said. Speaking to Shana, Araqi said despite concentration on developing gas infrastructures last year, NIGC could extend access to gas supply services to one million people by ...

[caption id="attachment_112057" align="alignright" width="205"] Managing director of NIGC Hamidreza Araqi[/caption] TEHRAN Feb 08(Shana)--The National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) considers the neighboring country Afghanistan as a potential destination for gas exports. Managing director of NIGC Hamidreza Araqi said the issue hasnot been raised at governmental ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 17 (MNA) Managing Director of Iran National Gas Organization has said production of 666 million cubic meters of gas per day will place Iran as the biggest gas producer in the history of gas industry. Hamidreza Araghi made the remarks at a press conference on Saturdayin Tehran. While maintaining that Irans gas production has exceeded ...