Flags of Iran & Iraq[/caption]TEHRAN, Feb. 25 (MNA) � Iraqi Ministry of Electricity spokesman has said Iran-Iraq gas pipeline project has almost been completed.
Mosaab al-Modares told an Iraqi daily that project of gas pipeline from Iran to Iraq was almost complete, adding that �the remaining part in Iraqi territory will be laid in case the security of the regions, through which it is supposed to pass, is guaranteed,� Iran�s state news agency IRNA reported.
The project is a 100-kilometer pipeline starting from Charmaleh in Ilam province to Naft-Shahr on the Iran-Iraq border and will supply gas to al-Mansourieh, al-Sadr and al-Quds refineries.
Al-Modares however added that the military operations still continued in parts of the region through which the pipeline would pass.
According to the contract agreement, Iran will export 4 mcm of gas to Iraq per day during the first phase of the project, which aims at meeting a major portion of Iraq's energy problems and electricity shortage. This figure will rise to 25 mcm�in later�phases.
During the operations to lay the pipeline in Iraqi territory, which ended mid-March 2014, 16 Iranian workers were martyred by terrorist groups.
By Mehr News Agency
