Iran to go ahead with plans to pump, export more gas

Iran is pushing ahead with plans to pump and export more gas, and could award contracts to build a cross-border pipeline to Pakistan and develop another phase of its biggest offshore gasfield in coming weeks.

Tehran could award the main construction contract for a 2,100km gas pipeline to supply Iranian gas to Pakistan “maybe within a month”, Seyed Mehdi Hosseini, the adviser to the managing director of Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction, said on the sidelines of a energy conference in Abu Dhabi.

Most of contract terms and conditions had already been decided, he added, without disclosing the contract’s recipient.