Financial Tribune - A project to construct a pipeline to transfer natural gas to Kish Island in south Iran is being carried out by the Pars Oil and Gas Company, a subsidiary of National Iranian Oil Company, an official at the Iranian Gas Transmission Company said.

The 120-km pipeline branches off from the IGAT7 and provides gas to the tourist island, Hamid Khedri, director of gas transmission operations in Bushehr Province, was reported as saying by the Oil Ministry news agency Shana.

The pipeline project will have three phases.

In the first it will branch off the IGAT7 and run for 90 km to Garzeh Port in Hormozgan Province.