Alarming Uptrend in Gas Use

Natural gas consumption has experienced a 51% growth in the last eight years, the head of National Iranian Gas Company, a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company, said.
“Gas consumption reached 233 billion cubic meters in the last fiscal year [ended March 20, 2021], while the figure was barely 154 bcm in 2013,” Hassan Montazer Torbati, was also quoted as saying by IRNA.
Iran is burning off record amounts of natural gas, which is way higher than the global average, he added.
With a population of 82 million, Iran burns more than 200 bcm of gas annually, which is closer to that of China, the second-largest economy and the most populous country in the world, which consumed a total of 191 billion cubic meters in 2015, data show.