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Iran-Armenia gas pipeline to go on stream in early 2007

Armenia Materials 5 October 2006 17:15 (UTC +04:00)

(IRNA) - A pipeline to transfer Iranian gas to Armenia is to go on stream in early 2007, Reza Kasaiizadeh, managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), said here on Wednesday.

"First, Iran will export 3 million cu. m. of gas per day to Armenia. The figure will gradually reach 10 million cu. m. of gas per day, according to the schedule," he was quoted by Tehran Times as saying on Thursday, reports Trend.

Shifting to the Iran-Turkey gas pipeline, he said that exports of Iranian gas to Turkey resumed on October 2 after they were disrupted by an explosion last Thursday which damaged a partion of the pipeline.

"The explosion was the first of a kind occurred at Iran's border.

NIGC is pursuing plans to increase security in border regions in order to prevent such events in future," he added.

He also said that Iran currently exports 20 million cu. m. of gas to Turkey per day.

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