Ali Reza Garibi, General Director of the Iranian Engineering Company for Gas Industry Development, said that construction of the pipeline with 48 inches diameter and 97 km long has been completed and it will be used to deliver up to 5 million cub.m. of Iranian gas a day to the power station in Baghdad. The pipeline is being tested now and after that it will be put into operation. The pipeline begins in Charmele region, Ilam province, and ends in Naftshekhr on the Iranian-Iraqi border.
Garibi reminded that according to the contract, first three years 4-5 million cub.m. of Iranian day a day will be delivered to Iraq. During the next two years the volume will be increased up to 15 million cub.m. a day and after three more years Iran will deliver about 25 million cub.m. of gas a day to Iraq.
Completion of construction of Bisotun-Dekhkalan and Bisotun-Naftshekhr pipelines will help to increase the volume of Iranian gas deliveries to Iraq. Next year construction of the 6th gas pipeline about 600 km long, which starts in Akhvaz and ends in Dekhkalana, will be completed. This will also help to increase the volume of gas deliveries to Iraq, reported Iran.ru.
