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way to potentially thousands of small-scale industrial or residential buyers, Iman nasseri, managing director for the Middle East with FGE, told Reuters.
“ e market for these two products is so vast that nding and targeting those individuals is not easy,” he said.
In July, Grace 1, a jumbo tanker laden with Iranian crude, became the most-watched ship in the world a er the British navy seized it o the coast of Gibraltar on suspicion of carrying oil to Syria.
e tanker has changed its name to the Adrian Daria since being released by Gibraltar and is in the eastern Mediterranean.
Oil products, like crude, fall under U.S. sanctions.
“non-U.S. persons engaged in this sanctionable conduct could be sanctioned themselves and be subject to blocking by
the U.S.,” Erich Ferrari, a Washington-based attorney who specializes in sanctions law, told Reuters.
Iran’s oil ministry did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. reuters
Gas
IGAT-9 Extension under Way
e Iran Gas Trunkline 9 (IGAT-9) is a strategic pipeline in Iran’s gas grid. Due
to its signi cance in providing necessary infrastructure for exports and enhancing gas supply to the western and northwestern provinces as well as feeding industries, this
trunkline has taken up added signi cance. As this project is completed, gas supply becomes more stable in the cities of Baneh, Saqez, Sardasht and Boukan. Although western Iran is mostly mountainous and there are numerous rivers and obstacles, this pipeline is progressing.
Mehdi Bazargani, IGAT-9 project manager, told Iran Petroleum about the project. IGAT-9 projects are among the prioritized and important projects operated by national Iranian Gas Company (nIGC). is trunkline stretches from Bidboland to the Bazargan border. Construction of Dehgolan-Miandoab section, which is 230km long, is over. Gas was fed into the nal 55km section in January. e rest is also ready for gas injection. e Bidboland-Ahvaz part which is 98 kilometers long is still under construction.
Four projects, totally 400 kilometers long, extending from Ahvaz to Kuhdasht are envisaged. ey are in fact the next phase of IGAT-9 to complete the Bidboland-Kuhdasht section.
A 56-inch project connecting sites 1 and 2 of Assaluyeh has been fed with gas and is in its nal stages. It will become fully operational a er the installation of launcher and receiver. A 40-inch ethane project has been also inaugurated. It earned the country high value-added. e pace and quality of work there constitute the outstanding features of the project.
is pipeline will supply gas to the Behbahan power plant, Behbahan cement factory, as well as the Gachsaran petrochemical plant. Supplying gas to the Gachsaran petrochemical plant is of vital signi cance for the plant
managers. We are making e orts to nish the project according to schedule by next March. About 30 km of this pipeline extending as far as Mahshahr is prioritized. It is expected to receive gas by november. Construction of the rest of the pipeline, 68 kilometers long, would be over by next July.
IGAT-9 in western Iran and Khuzestan Province is faced with many impediments.
In the West Corridor, from Dehgolan
to Miandoab, we were faced with steep mountains and hard land which made it di cult and time-consuming to work. However, we made every e ort to increase resource, machinery, equipment and working shi s in order to overcome these obstacles. When the projects were under way in Kurdestan, we had tough time, particularly last winter when the temperature was unprecedented in 20 years.
ere were many of them. We had 45 instances of cutting through paved road and ve cases of cutting through permanent rivers. For instance, it was very di cult to cross the Qezel Uzan River, which is 320 meters wide. One of the major problems to IGAT-9 is shortage of human resources required in the construction, installation and engineering sectors. Due to the seriousness of this issue, we hope that relevant authorities would cooperate with us to overcome this problem and we would be able to pursue the activities of this project particularly in the regulatory section with more precision and motivation and the company would experience a good jump in this strategic pipeline.
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