Displaying 1 - 10 of 25 articles
Logistics, not politics, should determine pipeline routes, according to Dr. Hossein Esmaeili, the general director of Europe, America and Caspian Sea Neighboring Countries at the Ministry of Petroleum of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In a speech on energy security and the role of Iran and Georgia at...
On February 19th, Iraq gave its ‘ok’ for the construction of a natural gas pipeline across its territory connecting Iran to Syria. The Iraqi Cabinet said in a statement Tuesday evening that it has instructed the country’s oil minister Abdelkarim al-Luaybi to sign a framework agreement...
Iran, Iraq, and Syria are working together on a gas pipeline project that will transport gas from the South Pars Field in Assalouyeh, Iran to Damascus via Iraq. Fars Press Agency announced the 1,6000 kilometer pipeline’s transfer capacity would be 110 million cubic meters of natural gas a day...
The European Union has announced today that it has banned the import of natural gas from Iran into the EU in a round of sanctions aiming to end Iran's possible development of nuclear weapons. In a statement released today, the the Council of the European Union said that it had "serious and deepening...
Supply of Iranian gas has resumed to Turkey following an explosion on the Iran-Turkey pipeline, Turkish Minister for Energy Taner Yildiz has said. Speaking to the press yesterday, Minister Yildiz said that Iran had restarted its supply of gas through the pipeline, which was shutdown following an explosion...
Iranian MP Esmaeil Kowsari Esmaeil Kowsari has said that the European Union’s intention to impose a ban on imports of Iranian natural gas would prove a mistake. In an interview with the Persian service of ISNA published on Friday, Kowsari said, “The European Union should be aware that it...
Iran has repeatedly claimed in recent weeks that it is moving forward with plans to ship Turkmen gas, re-exported from Iran, across Turkey and into Europe. But the story seem to be a fantasy. Sanctions are forcing European companies to divest from touching the Iranian energy sector; Turkey’s relations...
Last week was marked by a new stage of the EU activeness within realization of its energetic strategy in the Caspian region. The European Commissioner for Energy, Gunther Oettinger, visited Azerbaijan again. He met President Ilham Aliyev, the Foreign Minister Elmar Mamedyarov, and the Energy Minister...
Iran’s natural gas exports will reach 60 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year by the end of the fifth five-year development plan (March 2016), National Iranian Gas Company’s managing director Javad Owji said. Presently, Iran exports some 30bcm of natural gas annually to Turkey, Armenia, Nakhichevan...
Despite Iranian official’s statements about finalising the country’s gas exports to some EU countries, economic advisor of the European Union Mehrdad Emadi told Trend that all of the Iranian National Gas Company’s negotiations with several European countries have reached deadlock. “An...
