Gas Supply to Sistan-Baluchestan Province Continues Unabated

Over 113,300 urban and rural subscribers in Sistan-Baluchestan Province are connected to the gas grid and projects are underway to increase the figure, managing director of Sistan-Baluchestan Gas Company said.
“Currently, a large number of people in the cities of Zahedan, Zabol, Iranshahr, Bampur and Mohammadan, and villages around them have access to piped gas via 3,650 km of gas pipeline and the government is determined to ensure that all the people in the remote province will be provided with natural gas in the near future,” Mohammad Reza Mirshekari was also quoted as saying by IRNA.
With an area of 188,222 square kilometers (equivalent to 11.5% of the country's area) and a population of more than 2.8 million people, Sistan-Baluchestan is the only province partly deprived of piped gas. Until the whole population are connected to the grid, homes are making do with liquid fuel.