29 Mar 2024
Tuesday 17 June 2014 - 23:16
Story Code : 101475

Oil minister: Iran becomes major power in underwater pipe-laying

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh announced that Iran has become a leading country in the region in the area of underwater pipe-laying.

"In 1997, we could not lay one meter of pipeline beneath the sea, but now, Iran is the first power in the region in laying pipelines in the Persian Gulf," Zanganeh said addressing an open session of the Iranian parliament here in Tehran on Tuesday.




We have no limit and have production capacity more than our needs, he added.

He also emphasized that since 2010 Iran has not purchased pipes from foreign countries but it has met the countrys need domestically.

The Iranian oil minister added that the country is going to purchase two million tons of metal sheets from abroad and deliver them to domestic companies to build pipe.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Namdar Zangeneh hailed the 19th International Oil, Gas, Refining and Petrochemical Exhibition held in early May in Tehran, saying that the presence of hundreds of foreign companies in the exhibition is indicative of Irans capabilities in the area of petrochemicals.

1,800 companies, including 600 foreign firms from 32 countries, took part in the exhibition, which was held from May 6 to May 9.

Australia, Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, China, Iraq, Italy, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Malaysia, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand and Britain, are among the foreign countries attending the exhibition.

By Tasnim News Agency

 

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