Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 22
By Fatih Karimov - Trend:
Seven places appropriate for natural gas storage have been found in Iran.
Hamidreza Araqi, managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company, said such cases are studied by a working group and are approved by the oil minister, Iran's Mehr news agency reported on Feb. 22.
Accordingly, exploration operations are underway and a number of storage facilities will come on stream in the coming years, he said.
Currently, Shoorijeh gas storage facility - located in the northeastern province of Razavi Khorasan and Sarajeh gas storage facility- located in the central Qom province - are active in Iran.
The construction operation of Iran's third gas storage facility is underway in central Kashan city. Once the facility comes on stream, the country's total storage capacity will increase by 3 billion cubic meters to reach 11 billion.
Iran is now the Middle East's leading country in terms of gas storage capacity.
The country is also among the world's top five countries in this regard.