Russian Firm Ready to Work on Iran Gas Trunklines

Russian firms are interested in constructing and completing Iran Gas Trunklines (IGATs), according a senior official at National Iranian Gas Company.

Asghar Soheilipour, director of investment committee at NIGC, said the Russian firms are ready to handle IGAT-6, IGAT-7, IGAT-9 and IGAT-11, all destined to export Iran’s gas, oil ministry owned Shana News reported.

He said that a memorandum has been signed with a Russian company for the construction of a pipeline stretching from Iranshahr to Chabahar in southeastern Iran.

“For the construction of this pipeline, we need 700 million dollars in investment,” said Soheilipour.

 Soheilipour added that Gas Engineering and Development Company is currently gathering the necessary data for 300-kilometer Iranshahr-Chabahar pipeline, Shana News said.

IGAT-7, stretching from Assaluyeh to Iranshahr, needs 2 billion dollars in investment. IGAT-6 stretches from Assaluyeh to the southwestern city of Ahvaz while IGAT-9 starts from Assaluyeh and continues up to Bazargan along Iran-Turkey border.

IGAT-11 starts from Assaluyeh and finally reaches Tehran and the northeastern city of Mashhad.

Iran Gas Trunkline (IGAT) is the series of large diameter pipelines constructed from gas producing areas in the south of Iran (Kuzestan and Bushehr Provinces) in order to transfer natural gas to the consumption centres in northern part of the country.