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News ID: 29307
Publish Date : 27 July 2016 - 20:50

Iran to Triple Gas Exports to Armenia

TEHRAN (Press TV) - Iran says it plans to increase its exports of natural gas to Armenia from the present volume of 1 million cubic meters per day (mcm/d) to 3 mcm/d within the next few years.
Iran’s Petroleum Minister Bijan Zanganeh has been quoted by the media as saying that the rise will take place before 2019.    
Zanganeh told reporters after a meeting with the visiting Armenian Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Levon Yolyan in Tehran that the planned increase in Iran’s gas exports to Armenia follows a request from Yerevan to the same effect.
He added that Iran has temporarily already increased exports to Armenia to 3.5 mcm/d.  This, Zanganeh said, follows an announcement by the country that it has come across problems in a pipeline through which it imports gas from Russia and that it needs to fill the missing volumes through increased imports from Iran, IRNA reported.
Exports will return to the normal level of 1 mcm/d within the next 40 days once the problems over the Russian pipeline are removed, added the Iranian minister.
Iran says it plans to increase its exports of natural gas to Armenia from the present volume of 1 million cubic meters per day (mcm/d) to 3 mcm/d within the next few years.
Iran’s Petroleum Minister Bijan Zanganeh has been quoted by the media as saying that the rise will take place before 2019.    
Zanganeh told reporters after a meeting with the visiting Armenian Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Levon Yolyan in Tehran that the planned increase in Iran’s gas exports to Armenia follows a request from Yerevan to the same effect.
He added that Iran has temporarily already increased exports to Armenia to 3.5 mcm/d.  This, Zanganeh said, follows an announcement by the country that it has come across problems in a pipeline through which it imports gas from Russia and that it needs to fill the missing volumes through increased imports from Iran, IRNA reported.
Exports will return to the normal level of 1 mcm/d within the next 40 days once the problems over the Russian pipeline are removed, added the Iranian minister.