Officials said Iran would reach a gas output of 1.1 billion cubic meters
per day. They said the increase would stem from Iranian development of the
South Pars gas field in the Gulf.
Iran was estimated to produce about 360 million cubic meters per day.
Teheran, however, has been struggling to develop South Pars amid U.S. and
other Western sanctions on Iran's energy sector.
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Iran has also been developing its gas export network, Middle East Newsline reported. Officials said gas
has begun to flow through Iran's new 907-kilometer pipeline from the Gulf
city of Asalouyeh to the southeastern province of Sistan Baluchistan near
the border with Pakistan.
The pipeline, designed to export gas to Pakistan,
was said to have a capacity of 1.8 billion cubic feet per day, with an
option to expand to 2.9 billion.