Saeed Aghli, a senior official with the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) says Iran is currently importing as much as 7.5 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas from neighboring Turkmenistan.
He told reporters on Saturday that the NIGC is pumping some 93 percent of the fuel used in the power plants in the country.
Presently, repair and maintenance services of refineries are either underway or completed in order to forward the gas to the farthermost regions of the country in the cold season of the year, he further said.
The country is home to more than 39,000 km of gas transmission network and also 400,000 km of electricity distribution grid, he added.
In response to a question on importing gas from Turkmenistan, the manager stated that Iran is importing gas from Turkmenistan and has so far imported 10 million cubic meters of gas from this country.
He put the volume of gas imported from Turkmenistan to Iran at 7.5 million cubic meters.
Regarding the latest situation of gas swap deal with Turkmenistan, the official noted that gas swap will be made according to the request of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Based on a tripartite agreement between Tehran, Baku and Ashgabat, Iran began swapping Turkmenistan’s gas to Azerbaijan since early 2022.