Iran supplies 83 million cubic meters of gas per day to key industries

Azerbaijan, Baku, Nov.19/ Trend G.Mehdi/ Iran has supplied 83 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas per day on the average since the beginning of the Iranian calendar year (March 20) to its key industries, the Shana News Agency quoted National Iranian Gas Company's managing director Javad Owji as saying. Over 50,000 industrial units nationwide are being supplied with natural gas, he added. Iran's gas consumption will reach 600 million cubic meters per day in the upcoming winter, deputy director of National Iranian Gas Company Mostafa Kashkouli said in October. "Iran's national gas pipeline network currently has the capacity to transfer 700 million cubic meters of gas per day," he noted. The National Iranian Oil Company's managing director Ahmad Qalebani has said that the country's daily oil and gas outputs should amount to five million barrels and 1.47 billion cubic meters by 2015. Iran, with 155 billion barrels of recoverable oil reserves, ranks fourth worldwide, after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, and Canada. With 34 trillion cubic meters of natural gas reserves, Iran has the world's second-largest natural gas reserves after Russia. Do you have any feedback? Contact our journalist at agency@trend.az