A National Iranian Gas Export Company (NIGEC) official has announced the country's immediate plans to begin gas exports to Armenia. "Iran plans to annually export some 1.1 billion cubic meters of gas to Armenia and the amount will eventually be increased to 2.3 billion cubic meters by 2019," NIGEC's director for engineering affairs, Rasoul Salmani, said. Earlier, Reza Kasaei-Zadeh, the head of National Iranian Gas Export Company, said the country would be able to provide Armenia with the gas it needs for the coming winter. "Iran will pump three million cubic meters of gas to Armenia this winter," said Kasaei-Zadeh in an interview with ISNA. Armenia's Energy Minister Armen Movsisyan has said that the annual capacity of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline would increase to 2.5 billion cubic meters. "The Iranian-Armenian pipeline...
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