Bahrain should drill deeper for natural gas and even look as far as Russia to meet growing demand for fuel as supply talks with its neighbours stall, Bahraini energy minister Abd al-Hussein Mirza said in an interview with Kuwait news agency KUNA.
Demand for gas in the small Gulf oil producing country has grown rapidly in the last few years, pressing the island nation to find new sources of gas to feed its refining, power and aluminium smelting industries.
The Bahraini government expects drilling under a new gas exploration deal with U.S.-based Occidental to start soon, but in the meantime it is considering importing gas from Turkmenistan or Russia because of slow progress on dealing with gas-rich Iran or Qatar.
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