TEHRAN, September 9 - Dispatching Manager for the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Mehdi Jamshidi Dana said Iran’s gas exports have increased by 64 percent over the first 5 months of Iranian calendar year (started on March 20, 2017), comparing to similar period in the year before, reaching over 5 billion cubic meters.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Iran has exported 34.8 million cubic meters of gas daily over the period, while the amount had been 21.3 million cubic meters in the similar period in the year before, he said.
Iran has pumped over 5 billion cubic meters of gas during the five months, while the amount had been 3.2 billion cubic meters in similar time last year, he noted.
Over the past few years, Iran had been pursuing exporting natural gas to Kuwait, Oman and Iraq.
In late June, the country started exporting gas to Iraq by virtue an agreement that was signed in 2013.