Gas exploration increases to 492 million cubic meters per day, Gas Production also increases to 1820cubic meters in the next 20 years.
National Iranian Oil Company’s deputy manager talking about Iranian gas industry future in the first conference on refinement industry said: “Iran’s gas exportation via pipelines is going to be increased from 13 million cubic meters in 2005 to 304 million cubic meters in 2024, and for liquid gas this amount will be increased from zero to 188 million cubic meters; thus, Iran’s gas exportation will be 492 cubic meters in 2024 altogether.” Mohammad Javad Asemi-Pour added about enriched gas production: “presently gas production is about 436 cubic meters, but at the end of the 20-year perspective Iran will produce 1820 cubic meters in 2024.” Asemi-Pour mentioned the gas and oil exploration anticipation and pointed out: “all sorts of exploration in oil domain will increase from 500 to 11 million and 200 thousand in 2024, and in the gas domain it would be 3348 billion cubic meters at that time.” He expressed” all of the exploration in the Caspian Sea was about 500 million barrels last year which will be 8500 million barrels in 2024.” National Iranian Oil Company’s deputy manager talked about this company’s indices in the 20-year development program said:” the average crude oil production is about 4 million and 21 thousand barrels which increase to 4 million and 233 thousand barrels in 2024.” He also said about refineries’ share of crude oil: “the crude oil which is used to feed refineries is 1 million and 598 thousand barrels now and will be 2 million and 682 thousand in less than 20 years.”
