Iran and Turkmenistan have reached an agreement to transport 6 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Dolatabad field in southeast Turkmenistan to Iran's Khangiran refinery, the oil ministry's official Shana news Web site reports.
Shana cites Alireza Gharibi, managing director of Iran Gas
Engineering and Development Co., as saying that his company will be in
charge of the project, which will see a "48 or 56 inch pipeline laid
for transmitting this much natural gas."
"As developing Khangiran Refinery is planned, increasing gas importation volume from Turkmenistan seems vital," Shana quotes Gharibi as saying.