Gas Grid Waste at Prohibitive Levels

Natural gas waste in Iran’s national grid is three times higher than the global average.
A report from the National Iranian Gas Company Dispatching Department says close to 26 billion cubic meters of gas is wasted in the network every year. “This huge volume is 9% of the total annual gas output at 290 bcm,” the company said.
It blamed ageing equipment, the 36,000 km network and more than 100 gas pressure boosting stations in use for almost three decades.
Gas wastage in countries with much bigger grids than Iran namely the US, Russia, Canada, China, Mexico and Ukraine is about 3%.