Tehran, Iran, Nov. 25
By Milad Fashtami - Trend:
Iran currently delivers 112 million cubic meters of gas per day to industrial units, Majid Boujarzadeh, the spokesman of National Iranian Gas Company, said.
He said that some 364 million cubic meters of gas were consumed by Iranian households on Monday, Iran's SHANA News Agency reported on Nov. 25.
"The temperatures are expected to fall in 14 provinces in the coming days," he said, adding that household's gas consumption is expected to rise by 100 million cubic meters per day over the next 7 days.
"Iranian household's gas consumption is expected to reach 450 million cubic meters per day by next Monday," Boujarzadeh noted.
Houshang Taheri, an official with the National Iranian Gas Company, said on Nov. 2 that the households' consumption was around 120 million cubic meters per day at the end of September.
"The number of subscribers to the national network has increased by 8 percent compared to the same period previous year," Taheri said.
The Managing Director of Iran's Natural Gas Storage Company Masoud Samivand said on October 29 that the country is able to pump 20 million cubic meters of gas per day from Sarajeh and Shoorijeh gas storage facilities to the country's national gas network in cold months.
"If the temperatures continue to drop the country will start extracting gas from storage facilities in two weeks," he said, Iran's IRNA News Agency reported on October 29.
Samivand said on October 27 that some 2 billion cubic meters of gas have been stored in the country's storage facilities.
According to BP's latest yearly report, Iran 's dried gas output is about 160 bcm, a little more than domestic consumption level.
Iran exported 7.5 bcm of gas to Turkey and imported 4.5 bcm gas from Turkmenistan in 2012, according to BP's report.
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