Iran has studied eight routes to transfer gas supplies to the European countries, Iranian Deputy Oil Minister for International Affairs Hossein Noqreh-Kar Shirazi said today.
"In order not to be limited to cooperation with any given country, including Turkey, we have studied eight routes for transferring gas to Europe and conducted their feasibility studies and we are now taking the following steps," he said.
Noting that only four of the said eight routes pass through Turkey, he mentioned that the other four pass through Turkey's neighbors with easier conditions.
Noqreh-Kar Shirazi further named the Iran-Iraq-Syria-Mediterranean Sea line as one of the eight routes considered by Iran to export its gas supplies to Europe, and said that existence of gas pipelines in Iraq and Syria facilitates the implementation of the plan.
Source: Fars, Iran, July 13, 2010
