Armenia iran pipeline. The construction of the armenian part of the pipeline linking the city of meghri with yerevan at a length of 100 kilometers is estimated at 96 100 million. The iranian portion of the pipeline will. The 100 kilometre 62 mi long iranian section runs from tabriz to the iranarmenia border. The armenian section runs from the meghri region to kajaran and another 197 kilometres 122 mi of pipeline is planned to reach the center of the country where it will link up with the existing distribution network.
Even before the imposition of sanctions the pipeline competed. Meanwhile azerbaijan believes that irans neutrality is questionable given the significant economic cooperation between iran and armenia especially after the construction of a gas pipeline. Turkey and azerbaijan signed an inter governmental agreement on tuesday on the 7 billion trans anatolian natural gas pipeline project tanap planned to carry azeri natural gas across turkey to europe. Also azerbaijan is an energy rich country and two pipelines that carry oil and gas from the former soviet republic westward through the caucasus both pass near the disputed nagorno karabakh region.
It is owned and operated by gazprom armenia and links armenia to neighboring iran which has the worlds second largest natural gas reserve after russia. Murad sezer reuters archive. Yerevan rferlthe planned construction of a strategic gas pipeline carrying iranian natural gas to armenia and possibly third countries dominated a meeting in yerevan on tuesday between senior. In case the conflict spills over the borders of the disputed territory the very existence of the energy corridors could be under threat.
It has a capacity to pump 23 25 billion cubic meters of iranian gas per year. December 4 2008 00 armenia officially completed on monday the construction of a natural gas pipeline from neighboring iran which could reduce its heavy dependence on russian energy resources and significantly boost its electricity exports.
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