Iran Will Start Gas Supplies to Iraq Next Year

Iran will starting exporting natural gas to Iraq by spring of 2015, Tasnim News Agency quotes an Iranian official as saying.

Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Managing-Director of National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Hamid-Reza Araqi said Iran will transfer gas to Iraq before the wintertime to let the Iraqi power plants prepare for a continuous inflow of natural gas in the spring of next year.

He also made clear that another reason behind such a scheduled delay is that Iran’s domestic consumption of gas during the cold season is given priority over the exports.

Iranian and Iraqi oil ministers on July 21, 2013, signed the first deal to transfer Iran’s natural gas to two Iraqi power plants.

The project is aimed at supplying Al-Baghdad and Al-Mansouriyah power plants in Iraq with 25 million cubic meters (mcm) per day of natural gas, says Tasnim News Agency.