By mid-2015 Iran is going to deliver 40 million cub.m. of natural gas a day to Iraq, Ali Reza Kameli, President of Iranian export gas export, said yesterday.
“Export of natural gas to Iraq will increase gradually from 7 to 25 million cub.m. by early 2015 and up to 40 billion cub.m. by mid-2025,” Independent News Agency quoted Kameli as saying.
In June 2013 Iran and Iraq agreed to start Iran gas export to Iraq in July 2014. Gas imported from Iran will be consumed by the power stations of Baghdad, El-Mansooriya and Es-Sadr cities. It will be delivered to Iraq via the 270-km-long gas pipeline.
In the coming weeks another agreement on delivery of 50 million cub.m. of Iranian gas a day to Basra city on the south of Iraq could be signed, Russian Oil quoted Kameli said as saying.—0—
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