The Gazprom Headquarters today has hosted a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Gholamreza Ansari, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Russia.

The parties addressed issues of bilateral cooperation in the oil & gas sector, within the South Pars field project inclusive.

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Iran’s proven natural gas reserves average 28 tcm. Over 2005 Iran extracted 86.6 bcm of natural gas. Almost all the gas produced is sold to domestic consumers.

The length of Iranian gas mains is in excess of 22,000 km.

The only gas production firm in Iran is National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) supplying all the extracted gas to National
Iranian Gas Company (NIGC). NIGC’s businesses include all the operations with gas after its production: treatment, transmission, processing and marketing. NIGC owns 8 gas separation plants with more than 380 MMcm/d in overall capacity.