Iran will not only increase natural gas production, but also continually improve the efficiency of processing and refining businesses, the managing director of the Gas Engineering and Development Company, Alireza Gharibi said.
He said that Iran has carried out 10 projects in order to increase the production of gas and expand the infrastructure of processing plants across the country, Mehr reports. A.Garibi said that after the commissioning of Ilam and Hasheminebad gas processing plants the gas production has increased by 16 million cubic meters a day.
In the end of last year, Iranian Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi said that Iran has the capacity to produce 4 million barrels of oil and 600 million cubic meters of gas per day, Trend reports.