NIGC to Impose Surcharge on Heavy Consumers of Household Natural Gas

The National Iranian Gas Company has no plans to hike natural gas tariffs, but heavy consumers in the household sector will be imposed a surcharge as of Nov. 22, the oil minister said.
“Heavy consumers, who use more than 500 cubic meters of gas per month, account for less than 25% of total subscribers but they gobble up 50% of total gas output supplied to households,” Javad Owji was also quoted as saying by ISNA.
Referring to the number of gas subscribers, he noted that more than 25 million consumers in 1,106 cities and 24,260 towns are supplied with natural gas and 75% of them [19 million] use gas within the acceptable limit [lower than 500 cubic meters per month] and are charged 0.5 cent per cubic meters.