IRAN TO BEGIN GAS EXPORTS TO ARMENIA
IranMania News
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Iran
LONDON, October 8 (IranMania) – A National Iranian Gas Export Company
(NIGE) official has announced the country’s immediate plans to begin
gas exports to Armenia, PressTV reported.
?Iran plans to annually export some 1.1 bln cubic meters of gas to
Armenia and the amount will eventually be increased to 2.3 bln cubic
meters by 2019,? the director of the engineering affairs of the NIGE
Company, Rasoul Salmani said.
The head of National Iranian Gas Export Company had earlier said that
the country would be able to provide Armenia with the gas it needs
for the coming winter.
Iran will pump three mln cubic meters of gas to Armenia this
winter,? said Reza Kasaei-Zadeh in an interview with ISNA news agency.
Armenia’s Minister of Energy, Armen Movsisyan, has said that the
capacity of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline project would increase to
2.5 bln cubic meters per year.
The Iranian-Armenian pipeline would guarantee Armenia’s energy safety
by increasing the capacity of the Kadzharan-Yerevan section of the
pipeline by November 2008, Movsisyan added.
The Iran-Armenia gas pipeline officially became operational on
March 19, 2007 by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Armenian
President Robert Kocharian.
The project will provide Armenia with an alternative to the gas it
now imports from Russia.