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Iran planned gas exports to Iraq to hit 40 mcm/day

88ca34e0cc165b7853e8dad8e86a4568_LA senior Iranian energy official says the country will raise its planned natural gas exports to Iraq upon a request from the Arab country.

According to Press TV quoting SHANA News Agency, National Iranian Gas Export Company Director General Alireza Kameli said on Saturday that the amount of natural gas Iran has agreed to export to Iraq will increase to 40 million cubic meters per day (mcm/day).
In July, Iran and Iraqi officials agreed for 25 million cubic meters of Iranian gas to be delivered to Iraqi power plants in Sadr, Baghdad and al-Mansouryah through a 270-kilometer pipeline.
Speaking on the sidelines of his meeting with Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Hussain al-Shahristani, Kamali said the contract had originally had a duration of four years, which would be extended by another six years upon the request from the Iraqi side.
According to Kameli, Iranian gas exports to its western neighbor will gradually rise from an initial seven million cubic meters per day to 25 mcm/day by 2015 and ultimately to 40 mcm/day by mid-2015.
He said the two countries also plan to finalize a contract in the coming weeks for the export of another 50 million cubic meters per day of gas to Iraq’s southern city of Basra.

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