Tehran: Managing Director, National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC), has said that Pakistan wants to transfer Tehran’s gas through its territory, and China is keen to import it.
“Iran’s advantage over its rival countries (Qatar and Russia) is being situated between two big gas consumption markets, China and Europe,” SHANA quoted Hossein Bidarmaghz as saying.
He highlighted China’s growing need for gas and LNG, saying that its consumption would equal all of Europe by 2030.
Bidarmaghz said that if the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline is extended to China it will facilitate gas exports to the country adding that Iranian and Chinese officials would review the matter in the future.
The mega Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline deal, which was signed in June 2010, aims to export an annual amount of up to 21 million cubic meters of natural gas to Pakistan.
The project was originally known as Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline project. Iran, India and Pakistan held tripartite negotiations over the project, which was also known as ‘The Peace Pipeline,’ until New Delhi’s vacillation caused Tehran and Islamabad to continue talks bilaterally.
New Delhi finally quit the trilateral talks over differences with Islamabad on issues such as the fee Pakistan would charge India for gas transit.
In October 2007, Iran and Pakistan began a new round of talks in Tehran, where the details of the deal were finalized.
Chinese officials announced in March 2008 that they were ready to join the 7.4-billion-dollar Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project.
Iran has already constructed more than 900 kilometers of the pipeline on its soil.
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