Total, Belgium Mull Increased Gas Cooperation with Iran

Recent negotiations and Monday’s declarations indicate that Total and Belgium might step up cooperation with Iran.  

‘Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh hosted a meeting with Belgian Secretary of State for Foreign Trade Pieter De Crem in Tehran to discuss future energy ties between Tehran and Brussels’ wrote Shana, the news agency linked to Iran’s Ministry of Petroleum, on Monday. 

In particular, Teheran is interested in Belgium’s FLNG vessels. The country would like Brussels to send its fleet to Kharg in order to help the country producing LNG.

“The Belgian side can bring its FLNG vessels to Kharg so that Iran can produce LNG there for the first time provided that both sides show flexibility and the technical and economic negotiations bear results in not a long period” Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh commented as reported by Shana. 

A few hours before, several newspapers reported that France’s Total is interested in LNG projects in Iran.  

On Sunday, Zangeneh said that phases 15 and 16 of the South Pars gas field will officially come on-stream by the end of the month.