Javad Oji, managing director of the National Iranian Gas Co., said talks with Iraqi officials in Baghdad resulted in agreements between the countries to move ahead with a natural gas pipeline, the Fars News Agency reports.

Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi had said Iran could supply as much as 880 million cubic meters of natural gas to Iraq to help fuel two power plants.

Iraq struggles with electricity availability. Because it lacks the infrastructure needed to capture it, Iraq burns off most of the natural gas associated with oil production.

Oji said Iraqi officials had expressed interest in using Iranian contractors to build the 167-mile section of pipeline planned for the Iraqi side of the project, Fars adds.

Iran has some of the largest proven deposits of natural gas in the world.

Oji added that Iran gas would be exported to Iraq within the next 18 months, and added: “Iran and Iraq have great potentials to expand their ties in terms of natural gas,” reported the news agency of Iran oil ministry. He also referred to using the potentials of Iranian contractors for the construction of pipeline in Iraq as to be among other issues agreed between the two states.

2 Comments on "Iran may build gas pipeline in Iraq"

BillT on Sat, 9th Jun 2012 11:59 am 



Hahahahaha! The old Empirical ‘enemy’ and the new Empirical ‘enemy’ seem to have improved relations since the Empire got rid of Saddam. How many ways can you spell “loser”? And all it cost the US taxpayers was ~5,000 American lives, another 100,000+ wounded, thousands of broken families, hundreds of military suicides and a few billion Charmin dollars.

BillT on Sat, 9th Jun 2012 12:02 pm 



Oops! That’s a few TRILLION Charmin dollars. We were blowing a billion a day for what, 9 plus years?