IRAN NEEDS TO FIND SOME $30 BLN FOR EXPORT OF GAS TO WORLD MARKETS

YEREVAN, JULY 20. ARMINFO. Iran needs to find $30 bln to export its
gas to world markets. General Director of the national company of
export of Iranian gas Rukuddin Javadi said, Iran.ru informs.

During the seminar “Energy development and cooperation” Javadi said,
now Iran exports 10 bln cubic meters of gas to Turkey per a day, and
the export of Iranian gas to UAE will begin in 2005, and in 2006 to
Armenia and Nakhichevan. Since 2009 Iran will start the export of
liquified natural gas to the markets of Europe, Asia, and first of
all, to China and India. He added that according to the last
statistical data, gas production level in Iran totals in average 313
mln cubic meters per a day, and till the end of the 4th program of the
economic development this level will reach 586 mln cubic meter per a
day.