Tehran, YJC. An Iraqi official has announced that Iran-Iraq gas pipeline project has almost been completed.
Iraqi Ministry of Electricity spokesman Mosaab al-Modares
told an Iraqi newspaper that project of gas pipeline from Iran to Iraq is almost
complete.
Modares added that the remaining part in Iraqi soil will be
laid in case the security of the regions, through which it is supposed to pass,
is guaranteed.
The project is a 100 km long pipeline stretching from
Charmaleh in Ilam Province to Naft-Shahr on the Iran-Iraq border.
The line is expected
to supply gas to al-Mansourieh, al-Sadr and al-Quds refineries.
In the meantime, the Iraqi official stated that the military
operations still continued in parts of the region through which the pipeline
would pass.
According to the contract agreement, Iran will export 4 mcm
of gas to Iraq per day during the first phase of the project, which aims at
meeting a major portion of Iraq's energy problems and electricity shortage.
This figure will rise to 25 mcm in later phases.
During the operations to lay the pipeline in Iraqi
territory, which ended mid-March 2014, 16 Iranian workers were martyred by
terrorist groups.