Azerbaijan, Baku, Feb. 16 / Trend, A.Yusifzade /
Roughly $6 billion will be invested in construction of new gas pipelines and gas compressors over the next two years, Shana reported quoting the managing director of the Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company (IGEDC), Alireza Gharibi as saying.
Gharibi said that 2,700 kilometers of high pressure gas pipeline and nineteen new gas compressors would be constructed over the period.
"Continuation of seventh gas trunk line's construction with a length of 540 kilometers from Iranshahr city towards Zahedan city and another pipeline towards Pakistan border, new phase of sixth gas trunk line with a length of 600 kilometers from Dehgolan region towards Ahvaz city in southwestern part of the county and construction of a 30 inches 90 kilometers gas pipeline in the southeastern city of Chabahar are among the projects the company has decided to implement in next two years," Gharibi added.
According to Gharibi, this year (started March 21,2010 ) different projects came online including seventh gas trunk line with $1.7 billion investment, the second north - northeast country's gas pipeline with $500 million investment, the second gas pipeline of Khorramabad city with $130 million and some other smaller projects.
Inauguration of the largest boosting gas pressure installations in the Middle East in Saveh city in Markazi province along with launching some other gas compressors across the county were among the other projects came online during the first eleven months of the current Iranian calendar year started March 21,2010.
Earlier Iranian minister of petroleum Seyed Masoud Mirkazemi said that the volume of Iranian gas reserves amounted to 33.100 billion cubic meters.