VOL. XLIV

No. 18

30-April-2001

IRAN

NIGC Reveals Plans For Three Gas Refineries

The National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) is to build three gas refineries with a combined capacity to process 100mn cu ms/day of gas (3.5bn cu ft/day), according to the Iran Daily newspaper of 22 April. The paper quoted NIGC Managing Director Hamdollah Mohammad-Nejad as saying that $1.5bn had been allocated for the construction of the three plants.

Mr Mohammad-Nejad said that design and procurement work on a 10mn cu...