Iran-Armenia gas pipeline project underway

Mehr News Agency, Iran
Aug. 25, 2006

TEHRAN, Aug. 25 (MNA) – Armenian officials announced that preliminary
operations for the building of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline has
been completed.

Preparatory operations for the building of a pipeline to transfer
Iran’s natural gas to Armenia were finished, the Persian service of
Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) said here on Friday.

Based on a contract concluded between the Iranian company, Arvandan and
Armenia’s Hayrussgasard Co., the Iranian side has managed to finish
the digging of a 22.5 km long trench for the project, the report
quoted Shushan Sardarian, an official with Hayrussgasard as saying.

The length of the Armenian part of the gas pipeline from the border
region Meghri to Kajaran is 42 kilometers.

Pipe laying operation, as the next phase of the project to carry Iran’s
gas to the Transcaucasian republic, is expected to be completed by
the Iranian side by the end of 2006, the report added.