According to the report of the public relations of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), in a meeting with the Armenian Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructures, the Minister of Petroleum stressed readiness of the Iranian gas network to start a gas swap from Turkmenistan and to increase gas exports to this country.
"Negotiations for gas swap from Turkmenistan to Armenia through Iran have started and soon due to high capacity of Iran"s gas distribution network will achieve good results in this regard," Owji stated.
In his talks with the Armenian side, he had emphasized Iran"s readiness to swap gas from Turkmenistan to this country, adding that good agreements were reached during the negotiations on increasing gas exports, petrochemical products and comprehensive development.