Agreement to export Iranian gas to Iraq

TEHRAN, (ST) – General Director of the Iranian National Gas, Jawad Auji, announced yesterday that Iran and Iraq will sign Sunday a convention on the export of Iranian gas to Iraq and to supply Baghdad and al -Mansuriyya power stations with gas.

In a statement to IRNA, Auji added that the negotiations concerning export Iranian gas to Iraq began two years ago and a half year between Iranian officials and the Ministry of Energy and the two countries started, during this period,  to carry out gas export pipeline in parallel with the talks, adding that this agreement will be signed in the presence of Iranian Oil Minister and Iraqi Minister of Energy in Baghdad.

Auji added that the agreement provides for the export of Iran’s 25 million cubic meters of gas per day to the Mansuriyya and Baghdad stations in Iraq.

“The price of gas exported to Iraq, almost like the price accepted with other countries, and the financial returns from gas exports to Iraq will be a day about 10 million dollars and 5.3 to 7.3 billion dollars annually”, he added.

He said that the length of gas export pipeline to Iraq of 227 kilometers inside Iranian territory and 270 kilometers inside Iraqi territory and 27 inches in diameter.

“Iran’s gas exports to Iraq will begin during the first half of the current Iranian year, which began on March 21,” he announced.

The Director General of the company of the National Iranian Gas it as well as a first agreement for gas exports and supplying power stations Baghdad and al Mansuriyya, negotiations are going on to conclude a second agreement in order to provide gas stations for electric power generation in the city of Basra in southern Iraq.

Auji said that  this agreement will be included on the agenda for the export of gas from the south of the country, specifically from the area of Khorramshahr to the city of Basra by pipeline and the Iraqi side has to transfer the imported gas to the stations located in Basra through a pipeline with a length of 40 kilometers.

“According to  the talks held between Iranian and Iraqi officials that 20 million cubic meters of Iranian gas will be exported per day to Iraq through this pipeline and Iraq will import  a total of 45 million cubic meters of Iranian gas,: he explained.

Sh. Kh.