IRAN TO PIPE GAS TO POSTPONED TO WINTER

IranMania News, Iran
June 12 2007

LONDON, June 12 (IranMania) – Iran?s gas export to Armenia was
postponed to next winter due to a delay in pipe-laying operations,
MNA reported.

Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad and his Armenian counterpart,
Robert Kocharian, opened the pipeline’s first section at a ceremony
near the border.

Under the first stage of the project, Iran will annually export some
400m cubic meters of gas, which will be increased up to 3.2 bln cubic
meters when the 141km link is completed.

The 100 km Iranian section runs from Tabriz to Iran-Armenia border.

The Armenian section runs from Meghri region to Sardarian.