Iran reports record natural gas processing capacity
Iran’s state gas company says it has reached a daily record in natural gas processing, amid rising demand from household, power plant, and industrial sectors.
The CEO of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), Saeed Tavakkoli, said on Saturday that the company supplied 882 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas to the national grid on January 13, an increase of 2 mcm compared to the same day last year.
Tavakkoli added that gas deliveries to Iranian power plants also hit a new record of 162.1 mcm per day on the same day.
He said that from the start of the Iranian calendar year on March 21 until January 11, total gas supply to power plants rose by 3.2 billion cubic meters (bcm). Over the same period, gas supplied to industries, including cement and steel producers, increased by at least 1.5 bcm.
These reports come as Iran has managed to avoid winter power cuts that typically result from natural gas shortages at power plants. In previous years, cold weather forced the country to restrict gas supplies to industries in order to meet high demand for heating in residential and commercial sectors.
In a statement on Friday, the NIGC said that households, businesses, and small industries consumed 615 mcm of gas in the previous 24 hours, accounting for 71% of total national demand.
Unlike many countries where natural gas is mainly used for electricity generation, Iranians rely heavily on it directly for heating and cooking.
Iran is the world’s fourth-largest consumer of natural gas, after the United States, Russia, and China, with peak winter demand approaching 900 mcm per day during severe cold spells. The country is also the world’s third-largest producer of natural gas, with a daily production capacity of nearly 1 billion cubic meters of unprocessed gas.
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