Speaking
to Shana on Tuesday, he explained the details of topics discussed in
the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) and Gazprom Task Force on usage
of gas.
The
official referred to the Gazprom role in providing Europe energy needs
and said the company has also good experience in field of Liquefied
Natural Gas (LNG) and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG).
Gazprom experts attended the taskforce proposed a planning for better distribution of gas across Iran, Sheikh Bahaei added.
He
said that the Iranian and Russian sides have agreed to continue the
talks on ways of decrease of gas consumption for home usages and also
ways of monitoring the gas stations and other facilities in the next
meeting to be held in Russia.
NIGC
and Gazprom taskforce for repair and maintenance of gas transmission
and distribution networks held also a meeting on Monday with visiting
delegation from Russian Gazprom Company.
Eleven
topics including Compressed Natural Gas (CNG), Liquefied Natural Gas
(LNG), repair and maintenance system of Gas Turbo Compressors, Turbine
Testing Lab, leak detection of gas transformation pipelines’ new
technologies were discussed in the meeting between Iranian and Russian
sides.
In
a meeting with Gazprom vice president the previous year, Tehran and
Moscow established six task forces to explore ways of expansion of
cooperation.
Public
Joint Stock Company Gazprom is a large Russian company founded in 1989,
which carries on the business of extraction, production, transport, and
sale of natural gas.