Iran Plans to Increase Gas Storage Capacity

Iran plans to increase its underground gas storage capacity by inaugurating its second natural gas storage facility in the central city of Kashan, Press Tv has reported quoting an offcial.

Massoud Samivand, managing director of Natural Gas Storage Company (NGSC), said on Friday that the Nasrabad facility would end Iran’s need to import gas from neighboring Turkmenistan. 

The official said Iran currently ranks 19th in the world in terms of natural gas storage capacity, and will claim the 5th place when the new facility in Kashan and another facility under construction in Khorasan Province, northeast of Iran, are made operational, Press TV reported.

In January, Iran inaugurated region’s first natural gas storage facility near the village of Sarajeh.

The Sarajeh facility is said to have the capacity to store 1.2 billion cubic meters of gas in its first phase and 3.3 billion cubic meters in the second phase. 

Over 750 million cubic meters of natural gas has already been stored in the facility, Press TV said.