Friday, November 17, 2006
\nMinistry of Petroleum & Natural Gas <\/p>\n
INDIA AND IRAN DISCUSS NATURAL GAS SUPPLY TO INDIA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
India and Iran today held discussions on two important projects between the two countries for supplying natural gas to India. These projects include the sale of 5 million tones LNG per year and the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) Gas Pipeline Project. Various issues relating to these projects came up during a meeting between the Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri Murli Deora and the Iranian Foreign Minister Mr. Monachehr Mottaki, here today. <\/p>\n
The two Ministers referred to the need of strengthening the long standing friendly relations between Iran and India particularly in the context of the rapid economic growth in India and its growing energy requirements. <\/p>\n
Shri Deora emphasized Indian commitment to the projects and told media persons after the meeting that India will have a look at the fresh proposals from Iranian side regarding LNG contract which was signed in June 2005 at Tehran. He also informed that the consultants appointed for suggesting a pricing formula for IPI Gas Pipeline Project is expected to submit their report soon. This will be followed by Secretary level talks between the three countries at Teheran. Mr. Mottaki also reiterated that Iran is keen to go ahead with both these projects to further strengthen relationship between India and Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}