An official in the Iraqi government has said that the Arab country has been negotiating with Iran to secure a major increase in the daily supply of natural gas delivered to its power plants. Iraqi Ministry of Electricity spokesman Ahmad Musa said on Saturday that current demand for natural gas in the Iraqi power sector is 55-60 million cubic meters ...

President Hassan Rouhani said Iran needed to import gas eight years ago, but today the country is exporter of gas and diesel fuel. President Rouhani said in addition to production power, Iran has also the power to transfer. He lauded the efforts made by National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) with regard to producing and transmission of gas. The ...

IRNA Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh announced on Monday that Iranian gas export has doubled over the past seven years period. Zangeneh made the remarks at opening ceremony on 151 gas distribution projects in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah. The exports of liquid fuel have quadrupled in the mentioned period, the minister ...

MNA President Hassan Rouhani pointed to the ability of Iran to export gas to countries situated on the eastern side of its border. Today, we export gas from the west of the country to Iraq and Turkey and we can also export gas to eastern countries; we have laid the gas pipeline to the point of Pakistani border, he said on Monday in a ceremony to ...

SHANA An Iranian deputy petroleum minister announced that Irans natural gas exports had increased by 3.6 billion cubic meters, or 26%, in the calendar year of 1398 which ended on March 19 compared to the preceding year. According to the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), Hassan Montazer Torbati, who is also the NIGC CEO, underlined registration ...

Press TV - Iranian authorities say conditions governing its long-term contracts for exports of natural gas should change to adapt to a market that has been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Conditions governing long-term gas contracts would probably undergo essential changes after corona (virus), said Hossein Montazer Torbati, an Iranian Deputy ...

Financial Tribune - The National Iranian Gas Company filed a lawsuit against Turkmengaz, the national gas company of Turkmenistan, last year in the International Court of Arbitration. Despite rumors in sections of the media on Tuesday, which reported that Iran has won the case, no court verdict has yet been issued, a NIGC spokesman said. The ...

MNA Iranian first Vice-President Eshagh Jahangiri said that the country is ready to export gas to China through Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline. Gas is the most important energy of the world in the future and Iran possesses the worlds largest gas fields. And we are ready to export gas to China through Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline, he said in ...

MNA Touching upon the necessity of Irans more active foreign and energy diplomacy to keep and increase its share in regional and world gas market, Omid Shokri believes Iran is even losing Turkeys gas market. In near future, gas refineries of phases 13, 22, and 24 of South Pars will be inaugurated officially. This means Iran's greater share of gas ...

IRNA Armenia is capable of becoming a bridge for transferring Iran gas to other countries, including Europe. According to Armenian Media 'Panorama', an expert in energy and international security field Armen Manvelyan said Iranian gas supplies to Georgia via Armenia is highly possible, especially when such an attempt was made during the tenure ...

SHANA - The former Secretary General of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) said the latest estimates indicated that Iran, China, the US and Russia will be the four biggest suppliers of natural gas by 2040. Addressing the 6th Drilling Congress and Exhibition in Tehran on Saturday, Mohammad Hussein Adeli told a specialized panel at the congress ...

ISNA Turkey, Iraq, Azerbaijan and Armenia are the importers of Irans gas, Iranian deputy Oil Minister, Hassan Montazer-Torbati announced. Iran and Armenia have signed a set-off agreement on gas and power for a 20-year term in 2004. According to the deal, Irans exported gas will be used in Armenian power stations and Iran imports the power generated ...

FNA - Iran is currently exporting 36.24 million cubic meters of gas on a daily basis, which marks a 45% rise in comparison with the figures of the last calendar year (March 21, 2017- March 20, 2018). Irans Plan and Budget Organization announced in a report on Tuesday that the country has increased its daily export of gas from 25 million cubic meters ...

The National Interest |Omid Shokri Kalehsar: In recent years, the Turkmen government has refused to toe the line of the United States and Europe, continuing gas sales to Iran, despite misunderstandings over costs affecting the economic relations of both countries. These issues must be ironed out once and for all if any increase in ties is to be realized ...

SHANA -- The National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) CEO, Hamid Reza Araghi, said the country was able to enhance its gas exports to the neighboring countries as well as other potential customers. According to IRNA, Mr. Araghi told the Russian Energy Week in Moscow on Wednesday about the current state of the gas market in the world, saying that consumption ...

MNA Iranian Parliamentary official says that deteriorating bilateral relations with Turkmenistan is upsetting for Iran, adding persisting gas row has caused more problems. According to the website of Iranian Parliament Khaneh Mellat, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh made the remarks in a meeting with the representatives of private sector, representatives ...

MNA Chief Executive of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Hamid-Reza Araghi said that Irans gas export volume to Armenia will increase in the current year. Given the above issue, Iran and Armenia inked a barter gas and electricity contract in 2004, he said, adding, under the deal, it was stipulated that one million cubic meters of ...

SHANA-- The CEO of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said export and consumption of natural gas would benefit humanity, adding Iran's gas export deals were still effective and "no one has the right to impose sanctions on them." "Export of gas does not necessarily concern national interests, rather, human interests are hinged upon export and ...

SHANA -- Iran's natural gas exports grew by 60% last calendar year (ended on March 20) compared with the preceding year, the director of international affairs at National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said. According to NIGC, Behzad Babazadeh said the country's natural gas exports increased 60% last calendar year, adding the exports reached 13.8 billion ...

SHANA -- Irans Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh said, for Iran, export of gas is an economic, political and security necessity. According to the Iranian parliaments website, Gas export is an economic necessity and also a political and security one for the country, which generates energy and its exports brings the country income and employment....