Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company plans to lay over 1,000 kilometers of gas pipelines and link them to the national gas grid in the current Iranian year (started March 21), the state-owned company’s director for planning and project control said.
“With regard to progress made in the past five months, fulfilling the IGEDC’s goals in the present fiscal is feasible,” Mohsen Mazloum Farsibaf was also quoted as saying by Shana, the Oil Ministry’s official news agency, on Monday.
Stressing that the company, as a subsidiary of the National Iranian Gas Company, is the main contractor of gas development projects in Iran, Farsibaf said by providing gas infrastructure across the country, IGEDC not only supplies clean and inexpensive fuel to consumers, but also creates many direct and indirect jobs and plays a significant role in preserving the environment.
The official said that the company has managed to meet most of its commitments in the current year, adding that financial discipline, accelerating processes and adopting new approaches in operation and project control, as well as supporting domestic manufacturers, are the main factors leading to IGEDC’s success in realizing the goals.
Iran plans to extend gas pipelines from the current 36,000 km to 45,000 km by 2026, indicating a 26% increase.
In addition, the industry aims to increase gas production companies from the current 40 to 74 in the same period. The number of gas compressor stations nationwide is also due to increase from the current 81 stations to 130.
According to the report, Iran’s gas transfer capacity will stand at 400 billion cubic meters per annum in 2026. The figure is currently about 240 billion cubic meters.
Hassan Montazer-Torbati, the company’s managing director, told IRNA in January that plans have been devised to lay 1,200 kilometers of pipelines, in addition to building 10 compressor stations per annum in the next five years.
"With the completion of more phases of South Pars Gas Field in the Persian Gulf, liquid fuels such as diesel and mazut are being replaced by natural gas as power plant feedstock," Montazer-Torbati said, adding that the country has saved almost 50 billion liters of liquid fuel in the last three years.
The country is expanding gas supply infrastructure, as it looks to raise daily gas production to 1.2 billion cubic meters by 2021 from the present 880 million cubic meters.
