Call for Judicious Gas Consumption

A senior energy official warned against injudicious gas consumption in Iran, calling on both private and public sectors to adopt more efficient patterns.
Saeed Momeni, the National Iranian Gas Company's director for gas supply, added that the current trend of gas consumption, particularly through the use of inefficient gas appliances, need to be modified to prevent any future crises, ISNA reported. 
Gas consumption in the country ranges from 420 to 470 million cubic meters per day, which is four times higher than the global average. 
With a population of 80 million, Iran burns more than 140 billion cubic meters of gas annually not far from China, the world’s second-largest economy and the most populous country, which consumed a total of 191 billion cubic meters in 2015, data show.