Iraq to import 25 million cubic meters of gas per day from Iran

(IraqiNews.com) The Director General of the National Company for Gas, Jawed Aoji announced that “Iraq and Iran will conclude on Sunday an agreement for exporting Iranian gas to Iraq to provide Baghdad and Mansouriya electricity stations with gas.”

The Iraqi Council of Ministers had commissioned on 19th of past February, the Oil Minister to sign the contract of extending gas carrier pipeline through Iran, Iraq, Syria and Europe.

The Iranian IRNA News Agency quoted AOJi as saying “This agreement will be concluded in the capital, Baghdad in presence of the Iranian Minister of Oil and his Iraqi counterpart.”

The talks over exporting Iranian gas to Iraq to supply the Baghdad and Mansouriya electricity stations had started two years and a half ago where the two countries started, during this period, the implementation of extending the gas exporting pipeline.

The agreement stipulates exporting 25 million cubic meters of gas per day to Mansouriya and Baghdad electricity stations in Iraq.