Source: Press TV
Within 90 days Tehran expects to finalize a long-term deal with Baku to import
gas, the head of National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC) says.
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Iran's northern regions, distant from major gas fields, will be supplied with
Azerbaijani gas. |
In mid-January, NIGEC struck a short-term agreement to import some 500 million
cubic meters of gas per day from neighboring Azerbaijan.
"Iran expects to ink another contract to increase the amount of imported gas
from Azerbaijan to 2 billion cubic meters per day, when the negotiations are
finalized," said Seyed Reza Kasaeizadeh, head of NIGEC, on Wednesday.
Iran is forced to import gas for its northern territories because the country's
terrain obstructs supply routes from the energy-rich south.
Azerbaijan and Iran are linked currently via the 1474.5 kilometer
Kazi-Magomed-Astara gas pipeline.
In December, 2009 the Iranian Ambassador to Azerbaijan, Mohammad Baqer Bahrami,
said that a new pipeline is needed to supply Iran with the 5 billion cubic
meters of gas that it would like to import from Azerbaijan every year.
The infrastructure currently existing between the two countries allows the
delivery of about 500 million cubic meters of gas per year.
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