Cooperation between gas producing and consuming countries is the most important message of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Tehran...

Cooperation between gas producing and consuming countries is the most important message of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) in Tehran.

The Secretary General of the International Energy Forum (IEF) Aldo Flores-Quiroga made the remarks on Monday when GECF held its third summit meeting, Iran's SHANA news agency reported.
Addressing the delegates, IEF secretary general said setting up a gas data bank has led to growing stability in the gas market and formation of a balanced market based on supply and demand. 
The Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) is an international governmental organization which provides the framework for exchanging experience and information among Member Countries. GECF is a gathering of the world’s leading gas producers and was set up as international governmental organization with the objective to increase the level of coordination and strengthen the collaboration among Member countries.
GECF also seeks to build a mechanism for a more meaningful dialogue between gas producers and gas consumers for the sake of stability and security of supply and demand in global natural gas markets.
The Member Countries of the Forum are: Algeria, Bolivia, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Iran, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, Russia, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela. Iraq, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Norway, Oman and Peru have the status of Observer Members.

Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands said Iran is poised to become a major energy supplier in the 21 century in the world, saying good relations with the country must be maintained...

Minister of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands said Iran is poised to become a major energy supplier in the 21 century in the world, saying good relations with the country must be maintained.
"I think Iran will be a major supplier in the 21st century for oil and gas not only for the region but for the whole world," said Henk Kamp.
Speaking with Shana on the sidelines of a meeting with Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh in Tehran, Kamp said the Netherlands has had good relations with Iran for many years, and "we are happy that the future can be better because of the nuclear agreement of Iran with world powers. There will be good relations between the countries. "
Netherlands is a gas exporting country while being a distributing gas hub. The gas from Russia and Norway comes to Netherlands' Rotterdam Port for distribution throughout Europe.
"We have the biggest port in Europe in Rotterdam and there is a lot of oil and gas storage in the port," he added. "I think that in the future LNG and crude oil from Iran will go to Rotterdam and we will distribute it over Europe.”
Kamp arrived in Tehran November 22 at the head of a large Dutch trade delegation to investigate new business opportunities in post-sanctions Iran.
Over 60 large Dutch companies active in the energy and agriculture sectors are accompanying Kamp in his trip.

Chairman of Coordination Committee of the International Gas Union (IGU) said on Tuesday India and Pakistan are considered a special market for Iran’s gas considering their developing economies...

Chairman of Coordination Committee of the International Gas Union (IGU) said on Tuesday India and Pakistan are considered a special market for Iran’s gas considering their developing economies.

“Iran has the capacity to increase it gas export and boost presence in the global markets,” Menelaos Ydreos said on the sidelines of an IGU meeting, adding that Iran’s gas industry is advanced and systematic.
New Delhi and Islamabad are substituting natural gas with LNG, he said, “More that 50 percent of the world’s gas is used in Asia. Therefore, there is the potential to supply India and Pakistan with Iran’s gas.”
It’s worth mentioning that, the International Gas Union (IGU) is a non-profit organization which was founded in 1931. IGU has 91 Charter members and 57 Associate members in 91 countries. The mission of IGU is to advocate gas as an integral part of a sustainable global energy system, and to promote the political, technical and economic progress of the gas industry.

Islamic Republic of Iran plans to increase its share in global gas trade by launching five LNG projects over the next 3 years...

Islamic Republic of Iran plans to increase its share in global gas trade by launching five LNG projects over the next 3 years.
Managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Hamidreza Araqi made the remarks during the International Gas Union’s (IGU) natural gas working group, adding currently Islamic Republic of Iran exports gas to three neighboring countries including Azerbaijan, Armenia and Turkey and will start natural gas exports to Iraq in near future.
According to the report of the public relations of the NIGC, he said that negotiations are underway for exports of natural gas to India, Oman, Kuwait, Turkey (2nd phase) and Iraq (2nd phase)as well.
Araqi noted that Iran is the world’s top gas reserves holder with 34 trillion cubic meters.
 “Iran’s gas treatment capacity will hit as much as 330 billion cubic meters per annum by 2017 which in turn will raise the capacity for natural gas exports,” he stated.
NIGC has development of four gas storage projects on the agenda of which two projects have come online so far, NIGC official noted.
“The country produced 173 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 2014,” he said, adding Iran is currently the world's fourth largest producer of natural gas after the USA, Russia and Qatar.
It’s worth mentioning that Iran wants to increase its gas production capacity to 1200 MMcm/d by 2020.
“Also Iran with consumption of 173 billion cubic meters of natural gas in 2014 was the world’s fourth largest gas consumption after USA, Russia and China,” he added.
At the end Araqi mentioned that NIGC aims at ranking the third among natural gas producers in the world to achieve 8 to 10 percent of the global gas trade share. The second objective of NIGC is ranking the first in the region in terms of gas technology.

Mohammad Hossein Adeli, the reinstated Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) secretary general, said ...

Mohammad Hossein Adeli, the reinstated Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) secretary general, said GECF can boost security of the global energy supply by boosting its output of gas as a more secure and environmentally friendly energy.
Addressing the 3rd GECF Summit Meeting in Tehran on Monday, Adeli said the world will need more secure an amount of environmentally friendly energy in the future, requiring GECF member countries to boost their output, Iran’s SHANA news agency reported.
"The world will need more secure an amount of environmentally friendly energy," he said, adding "This is where we see an enhanced role for natural gas as the fuel of choice for sustainable development and the GECDF that will meet much of this demand."
Today in the market urges the forum to boost its output, he said.
Adeli added, "During the past two years we have embarked on new initiatives aimed at efficiency of GECF and its secretariat."
"We hope that by such efforts, interests of the members countries will be preserved," he said.