‘Iran let to export gas to Syria via Iraq’

Iraq has consented to the transit of Iran’s natural gas to Syria and the Mediterranean regions from the Iraqi territories, an Iranian Oil Ministry official says.

The agreement was made after a recent meeting between ranking Iranian and Iraqi officials over the transfer of Iran’s natural gas to Iraq’s power plants and beyond, ISNA reported Iran’s Deputy Oil Minister and Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Javad Owji as saying on Sunday.

The Iranian official also said that the plan for natural gas delivery would take at least three years after the construction of a major pipeline capable of transporting around 60 million cubic meters of gas per day.

Meanwhile, Deputy Managing Director of NIGC Mostafa Kashkouli has recently said that Iran is negotiating to pump its gas to Iraq via two pipelines that cross the border at Dehloran and Khorramshar.

Iran possesses the world’s second largest gas reserves after Russia, which compose almost 16 percent of the world’s total. The country is eager to expand its consumer base for energy resources.

Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said during his visit to Syria in 2009 his country has already begun preparing studies to connect the gas network from South Iran, Iraq, Syria, Mediterranean and finally into Europe.

Eng. Sufian Allaw Minister of Oil and Mineral Resources stressed during his visit to Iran the importance of the a project with Iran through the network saying that we will accelerate procedures of implementing gas pipeline between Aleppo and Turkish boarders that will allow to export gas from Iran through the Turkish network.