Turkmenistan’s Turkmengaz Company has halved its gas exports to Iran without any prior notice to some 10 million cubic meters. The Central Asian states have reduced its natural gas exports to Iran due to the harsh cold weather in the region.

Mr Javad Owji head of NIGC said that despite the cut in natural gas imports and the cold winter, no disruption in gas supply has so far been reported nationwide.

Mr Hossein Bidarmaghz MD of National Iranian Gas Export Company said that the Central Asian country currently exports about 14 billion cubic meters of gas a year to Iran. Ashgabat has expressed its willingness to increase the amount to 20 billion cubic meters per annum.

(Sourced from www.tehrantimes.com)