Iran has requested natural gas imports from Turkmenistan to be increased to 40 million cubic meters per day, says Trend.
Iran imports 15-18 million cubic meters of gas per day from Turkmenistan, but the figure reaches 30 million cubic meters during winter.
On October 22, IRNA quoted the National Iranian Gas Company's managing director, Javad Owji, as saying that imports of natural gas from Turkmenistan to Iran have decreased 52 percent over the first half of the current Iranian year compared to the same period last year, which began on March 20.
According to BP, Iran imported some 10.2 billion cubic meters of gas from Turkmenistan last year, while exporting some 8.4 billion cubic meters of gas to Turkey.
Last year, gas consumption and production in Iran amounted to about 153.3 billion cubic meters and 151.8 billion cubic meters respectively.
Iran also barters around 400,000 cubic meters of its gas with Armenia for electricity. With Azerbaijan, Iran is using swaps, which account for one million cubic meters of gas per day.
