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Natural Gas Pipeline from Iran to Iraq could be Ready in 20 Days
Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company says pipeline could be ready before the end of August
Managing Director of the Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company Alireza Gharibi said the company finished testing 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) of pipeline that will run from Iran to neighboring Iraq. Gharibi said the company hopes to export natural gas to Iraq in 20 days, reports Iran’s PressTV.
“At present, we are discharging water from the pipeline and after a few final tests, which will take to the end of this month, the pipeline will be ready for exports,” Gharibi was quoted as saying by the Oil Ministry’s official SHANA news agency.
Gharibi said that the first phase of the projects operations will have a capacity of 5 million cubic meters (Mcf/d) of gas to Iraq and the figure will rise after the completion of the Sixth Iranian Gas Trunkline (IGAT-6). “When the second section of the Sixth Iranian Gas Trunkline is completed by the end of the current [Iranian] year (ends on March 19, 2016) … it will be possible to export as much as 25 Mcf/d of gas to Iraq,” Gharibi added.
Iran and Iraq signed an agreement for the export of natural gas from Iran’s South Pars field in 2013 for the supply of 25 Mcf/d of gas to Sadr, Baghdad and al-Mansouryah power plants. The projects have been delayed due to security concerns over the ongoing conflict with ISIS in the region.
Natural gas is a priority for Iran
As negotiations with Iran regarding the country’s nuclear program continue to move towards an end to the international sanctions on Iran’s crude oil exports, the country’s Oil Ministry has set goals for billions of dollars of investment to improve both its crude oil and natural gas infrastructure. “Bringing in investment for natural gas development is a top priority,” Dr. Iman Nasseri of international energy consulting group FGE told Oil & Gas 360®.
“The future of natural gas development will be rapid,” he said. “FGE’s expectations were, even without the lifting of sanctions, that development would be finished in about 10 years. With investment, it will be much faster. I believe we will see 7-8 Bcf/d from South Pars in the next 5-6 years.” More than half of that production will likely be sold as exports, Nasseri said.
10 Comments on "Natural Gas Pipeline from Iran to Iraq could be Ready in 20 Days"
Plantagenet on Mon, 3rd Aug 2015 7:44 pm
Shia Iran will increasingly dominate Iraqi politics and move to integrate Iraq into its economy, now that Obama has ended the sanctions on Iran.
Makati1 on Mon, 3rd Aug 2015 9:05 pm
I don’t think that Congress has approved any sanctions to be lifted and they are on vacation until sometime in September. So, we shall see.
Nothing is “for sure” involving the ME.
Boat on Mon, 3rd Aug 2015 9:45 pm
Plantagenet,
Congress has yet to approve anything.
Jimmy on Tue, 4th Aug 2015 12:25 am
Shia Iran has been dominating Iraqi politics for close to a decade. Sanctions weren’t standing in the way of that. In fact Iran has benefited greatly from the moves of the USA in the region; ridding them of their two biggest problems, Saddam to the West and Taliban to the East, and then they ran a 7 year/5 billion dollar a month anti armour weapons lab in Iraq curiously of the good old USA. There’s a reason the chicken hawks in Washington only mention air strikes against Iran and not armoured columns. Iranian anti armour technology has taken some serious leaps and bounds since 2003. Iran played USA like a fiddle. And in the meantime China has extended its maritime power and Russia has reclaimed much of its former periphery. Thanks for coming out. Support the troops!!
Plantagenet on Tue, 4th Aug 2015 12:34 am
Boat, Obama has already said he will veto any move by Congress to block his deal with Iran.
Cheers!
Jimmy on Tue, 4th Aug 2015 12:55 am
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/01/hezbollah_brigades_c.php
There’s a saying around these parts; I believe it goes something like “good job numb-nuts”.
Pentagon uses tax dollars to buy weapons and give the weapons to Iraq. Iraq either gives them to Iranian backed militias who then give them to Iran who then give them to other Iranian backed militias, or alternately Iraq may also leave them on the battlefield after they flee for ISIS to then have. On a more positive note the weapons manufacturers are making good profits off of sales to the Pentagon, er I mean the taxpayer.
Jimmy on Tue, 4th Aug 2015 1:06 am
Meanwhile back at the Batcave!
http://youtu.be/8FjCZoq_MX8
BobInget on Tue, 4th Aug 2015 4:36 pm
If Iraq, or any nation becomes dependent on another, in this case Iran for finite commodity,that nation is beholding. Countries that trade become co dependent.
Saudi Arabia doesn’t really fear Iran becoming a nuclear ‘power’. SA fears
Persia. Nuclear weapons in the age of
global warm, ‘atomic bombs’ are so last century.
BTW, The middle east finds itself stuck in the middle of a historic ‘heatwave’.
Iraq:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/04/middle-east-swelters-in-heatwave-as-temperatures-top-50c
Iran:
Apocalpytic Iran Heat Wave Nearly Breaks World Record
Iranians experiencing some of the hottest temperatures ‘ever endured by humankind,’ as heat index hits 164 degrees (73 C).
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By Ari Yashar
First Publish: 8/3/2015, 8:17 AM
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On the same weekend in which it threatened to “annihilate” Israel following the nuclear deal it struck with global powers, Iran experienced a mind-boggling 164 degrees (73 Celsius) heat index reading last Friday, in what some might see as a warning by the Almighty Himself that all options are on the table.
The heat index, also know as the “feels-like” temperature, combines air temperature and humidity to give an accurate reading as to how the human body perceives the relative temperature.
As Iran entered the current heat wave breaking on the Middle East last
Thursday, temperatures at the Manshahr Airport in southwest Iran’s Bandar Mahshahr, home to over 100,000 people, hit 109 degrees (43 Celsius) with a dewpoint of 90 degrees (32 Celsius). Those figures compute out to an incredible 159 degrees (70 Celsius).
BobInget on Tue, 4th Aug 2015 4:44 pm
It seems Iran, Iraq, Israel, will need all that NG just to keep from heat stroke. Like California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska folks in the Middle East will need to fight fires instead of each other.
Fires in California are mostly not contained. News reports have these fires spreading far more quickly then in the past. It’s a toss-up. Live near an ocean, deal with rising sea levels
or inland fighting fires.
Boat on Tue, 4th Aug 2015 5:20 pm
Israel is keeping 60% and selling 40% of production. As per a few months ago.