This file photo shows installations at South Pars gas field in south Iran.[/caption]The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has acknowledged that international sanctions have failed to stop Irans natural gas production growth.
Despite repeated delays in field development and the effects of sanctions, Irans natural gas production is expected to increase in the coming years, EIA said in a recent report.
It said Iran contributed some five percent to the worlds dry natural gas production in 2012, the year the United States and the European Union toughened sanctions against the countrys energy sector.
The report added that Irans natural gas production reached 8.2 trillion cubic feet (tcf) in 2012, up three percent from 2011.
Despite the sanctions, it said, Irans natural gas production has kept growing in recent years.
Irans gross natural gas production will increase to 10.6 tcf in 2020, the EIA report said.
The agency stated that development of the giant offshore South Pars gas field is the most significant energy development project in Iran.
The gas field, shared with Qatar in the Persian Gulf, is estimated to contain 14 trillion cubic meters of gas and 18 billion barrels of gas condensate.
At the beginning of 2012, the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions on Irans oil and financial sectors with the goal of preventing other countries from purchasing Iranian oil and conducting transactions with the Central Bank of Iran.
On October 15, 2012, the EU foreign ministers reached an agreement on another round of sanctions against Iran.
The sanctions have been partially relieved since Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council the United States, France, Britain, Russia and China plus Germany clinched a landmark interim nuclear deal in November 2013.
By Press TV
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