Iranian Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi and Turkish Energy and Natural Resources
Minister Taner Yildiz held a meeting in Tehran on Saturday.
During the
meeting the two sides discussed issues of mutual interest. Iranian gas transit
to Europe via Turkey, boosting the two countries cooperation in the energy field
and Turkey’s investment in Iranian gas fields were among the major topics of the
meeting.
Currently Iran on average exports 30 million cubic meters of
natural gas to Turkey per day. Iran’s gas exports to Turkey in 2009 amounted to
roughly €5 billion. The gas network between the two countries has the capacity
to increase the annual transfer of gas up to 15 billion cubic meters.