Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 9

28-Feb-2011

IRAN

Iran Claims News Gas Discovery

Mahmoud Salahi, governor of Irans northeastern Khorassan Razavi Province, told Mehr News Agency on 21 February that the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has made a gas discovery there. He said the new gas field is located around 120km northeast of Mashhad near the Turkmen-Iranian border, and was named Kape' Dagh. Mr Salahi reportedly said: We predict we can produce over 120mn cmd of gas from the...