Radio Farda - Amid U.S. sanctions on Iran, Iraq is currently facing a challenge in addressing energy needs and supply of other vital goods, as its chief supplier of natural resources and a key trading partner grapples with its own isolation. Following the imposition of U.S. sanctions on Iran, particularly on oil and gas exports, Iraq was given 45 ...

Press TV - Iraq has rejected a US deadlineto stop importing Iranian gas, warning that any halt to the supplies would create a real power crisis which sparked several days of unrest in Basra and elsewhere this summer. Stopping Iranian gas after the deadline will create a real power crisis. We need more time the Americans are completely aware of ...

SHANA - An Iranian gas official said the Iraqi city of Basra has announced its readiness to import gas from Iran, adding the flow will begin once Iraq pays for it. Hamid Reza Araqi, CEO of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), said the second phase of Iran's gas export to Iraq is under way and Basra has indicated readiness to receive gas from ...

Tasnim A top Iranian energy official unveiled plans for a rise in natural gas exports to neighboring Iraq next year. In an interview with Tasnim on Saturday, Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Hamid Reza Araqi said the countrys exports of natural gas to Iraq will increase during the spring and summer of 2018. Irans gas ...

SHANA - Iran has so far exported 1.2 billion cubic meters of natural gas to neighboring Iraq. Managing Director of National Iranian Gas Transmission Company (NIGTC) Saeid Tavakoli said Iran is currently exporting 7 to 25 million cubic meters of gas to Iraq on a daily basis and has so far exported 1.2 bcm of the item to the Arab country through Naft ...

SHANA National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) says Iran will soon start sending its gas to Iraq's city of Basra. According to Mashal Weekly, NIGC's Director of Planning Mohammad Reza Ghodsizadeh said Iran's gas exports are expected to reach 68 bcm/y by 2022, end of the 6th National Development Plan. Iran started exporting 7 mcm/d of natural gas to ...

IFP - Iraq says it needs to import natural gas from Iran to operate its power plants within the next seven years. Iraqs Electricity Minister Qasim al-Fahadawi says his country will need Irans natural gas over the next seven years to operate its power stations as the Arab countrys domestically produced natural gas will not suffice. According ...

AFP- Iran has begun exporting gas through a pipeline to Baghdad under a deal set to make Iraq the Islamic republic's top customer, the oil ministry said. "Iran's natural gas exports to Baghdad began Wednesday evening," Deputy Oil Minister Amir Hossein Zamaninia said late Wednesday in comments carried by the ministry's Shana website. "The exports ...

IRNA - Minister of Petroleum Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said on Monday that Iran's gas pipe-line which transfers Iran's gas to Iraq is ready to be launched. He said upon his arrival to Baghdad on Monday while calling for the expansion of cooperation with Tehran as a big oil producing countries. He made the remarks at the airport in a welcoming ceremony ...

Press TV- Iran says it is ready to proceed with a much-awaited project to export natural gas to Iraq as soon as Baghdad takes measures to make the related payments. Irans Deputy Petroleum Minister for International Affairs and Trading Amir-Hossein Zamaniniya was quoted by the domestic media as saying that a pipeline that has been established ...

Iran, holder of the worlds biggest natural gas reserves, says it will start exports to Iraq in the next month, more than a year later than it originally planned. Shipments will start at 7 million cubic meters a day to supply a power plant in Baghdad, Hamid Reza Araghi, director of the National Iranian Gas Co., said in an interview with the Iranian ...

TEHRAN, March 09 (Shana) -- A senior Iranian oil official said Iran is prepared to start supplying natural gas to neighboring Iraq, adding gas will be sent to the Iraqi border in less than a month. "We hope the Iraqi side is ready to receive Iran's gas, however, we have learned that 20km of a pipeline to send Iran's gas to Iraq's Diyala Governorate ...

Irans planned gas delivery to Iraq has been delayed again due to prevailing insecurity in its western neighborwhere Takfiri Daesh terrorists are wreaking havoc. Azizollah Ramezani, the director for international affairs of National Iranian Gas Exports Company (NIGEC), said Irans gas is unlikely to be pumped to Iraq on schedule this year. Most ...

TEHRAN Sept. 20 (Shana) Iran and Iraq have finalized the development plan for construction of the gas pipeline to carry gas to the neighboring Arab country, and its contract is in final stage of being drafted, said international relations director at the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC). The Iraqi side has started the initial executive work too ...

TEHRAN Sept. 09 (Shana) -- National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) can supply Iraq with 35 million cubic meters of gas on a daily basis given a new amendment to the gas export contract signed by the two neighboring Asian states, director for international affairs of NIGC said. Azizollah Ramezani said based on a new amendment added to the gas contract,...

Tehran, Aug 15, IRNA -- Iran has prepared the draft of a much-awaited agreement with Iraq to export natural gas to the country, a senior energy official announced on Saturday. 'The draft has been finalized after four days of discussions between the Iranian and Iraqi expert teams,' Azizollah Ramezani, the director for international affairs department ...

Irans gas exports to the neighboring Iraq have been pushed back again over concerns about the security of the pipeline, the Fars news agency said on Saturday, citing informed energy industry sources. Iran is ready to begin exports but some minor problems are preventing the start of the gas flow to Iraq, the source said. The shadow of security ...

[caption id="attachment_64519" align="alignright" width="210"] Head of National Iranian Gas Exports Company Ali-Reza Kameli[/caption] TEHRAN March 02(Shana)--Iran is likely to start delivering natural gas to neighboring Iraq in May, the head of National Iranian Gas Exports Company said. In case security is established in Iraq, Irans gas exports ...

TEHRAN, Feb. 01 (MNA) Iran started building the second pipeline to transport its gas to neighboring Iraq. The second pipeline, which passes through Basra and Baghdad, will lead to a rise in Iran's gas export capacity to Iraq within next 2 years,Iran's IRNA state news agency reported. The construction process of the first pipeline which goes to Baghdad ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian energy official said the country will start supplying natural gas to neighboring Iraq on a regular basis as early as spring 2015. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Managing-Director of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Hamid-Reza Araqi said Iran will transfer gas to Iraq before the wintertime to let the Iraqi power ...