Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - The Iranian ambassador to Amman has announced the Islamic Republic's readiness to supply gas to Jordan via pipelines currently used to supply Iraq and Turkey.

Mostafa Moslehzadeh said that gas could also be delivered to Jordan via ship, Mehr news agency reported on Wednesday.

The Jordanian government had received an offer from Iran to supply the country with natural gas, Energy Minister Khalid Touqan said in July 2011.

Iran’s natural gas production capacity stands at around 554 million cubic meters per day, the National Iranian Gas Company’s spokesman said on February 5.

Majid Boujarzadeh told Pana news agency that taking imported Turkmenistani gas into account, some 600mcm of natural gas is supplied across Iran each day.

Iran has exported some 7.6 billion cubic meters of natural gas since the beginning of this calendar year, which started on March 21, 2011, up 10.5 percent on the same period last year.

Iran sits on the world's second largest natural gas reserves after Russia.


* Tehran Times