Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIV

No 8

21-Feb-2011

IRAN

IGEDC Outlines Gas Pipeline Development Plan To 2013

Alireza Gharibi, Managing Director of the Iranian Gas Engineering and DevelopmentCompany (IGEDC), a subsidiary of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), outlined on 16 February the companys two-year development plan. He told reporters that IGEDC planned to construct, at a cost of $6bn, some 2,000km of high pressure gaspipeline and nineteen new gas compressors. Mr Gharibi said the...