Iran’s daily gas consumption reaches 529 mcm

Daily gas consumption in Iran surpassed 529 million cubic meters, National Iranian Gas Company's spokesman Majid Boujarzadeh said.

Residential and commercial units, industrial units, and power plants consumed more than 529 mcm on November 13.

The three sectors consumed 322 mcm, 97 mcm, and 110 mcm, respectively, Shana news agency reported on November 14.

Iran's residential and commercial units' gas consumption level was 160 mcm/d in late October and it's expected to reach 500 mcm/d in January.

Manoochehr Taheri, director of the dispatching center at the National Iranian Gas Company, said on November 7 that some 202 billion cubic meters of gas was produced in the country in the past Iranian fiscal year, which ended on March 20.

He added that gas consumption stood at 190 billion cubic meters last year.

Some 51 percent of the country’s natural gas is supplied from the South Pars gas field, he noted.

The volume of gas supply to Iran's power plants will reach 58.2 bcm by the end of the current year, he said, adding that the power plant sector requires as much as 72 bcm of gas per year to curb liquid fuels usage in this sector.