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       Iran inaugurates



       northern gas projects






        IRAN             IRANIAN Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh this  national network is the most economical way.”
                         week commissioned 286 gas projects in the   Meanwhile, last month, Hassan Montazer
                         north-eastern province of Khrasan Razavi as  Torbati, head of the National Iranian Gas Co.
                         part of Tehran’s plans to increase supply and  (NIGC), said that projects to connect these areas
                         connectivity in rural areas.         to the gas network remained ongoing despite
                           Local news agency IRIB reported that these  lockdowns and other issues creased by the coro-
                         developments would increase gas network cov-  navirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
                         erage in rural areas to 88%, giving new 77 areas   This followed comments from NIGC’s for-
                         and 39 more villages access to gas supplies.  mer director of dispatching, Mehdi Jamshi-
                         Meanwhile, gas supplies to 167 production and  di-Dana, who said that the national gas network’s
                         industrial units also commenced.     capacity had increased to 1bn cubic metres per
                           Zanganeh was quoted by IRIB as saying that  day. Meanwhile, Shana recently reported that
                         2013, more than 32,000 rural households had  the country’s gas refining capacity had also
                         been connected to the national gas network, and  expanded to more than 1 bcm per day.
                         that more than 95% of the country’s total popu-  Exports also grew by around 3.6 bcm
                         lation is connected to the grid. “This coverage is  between March 2019 and March 2020 and this
                         unprecedented in the world,” he added.  week, a source at NIGC told Middle East Oil &
                           Of Tehran’s plans for expanding coverage in  Gas (MEOG) that despite industrial action being
                         rural areas, he said: “We examined all methods  taken by workers throughout Iran’s oil and gas
                         of supplying gas to the rural areas, which took a  sector, gas production has been unaffected (see:
                         year to study and research, and we came to the  Iranian workers strike amid wage payment delays,
                         conclusion that connecting these areas to the  page 8).™




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