After tensions we reported in October, there seems to be increasing cooperating between Iran and Kuwait on natural gas. Payvand reported in November that Iran was in talks with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for joint development of the Arash/Durra gas field the three countries share. Today, Press TV reports (excerpt below) that talks with Kuwait are progressing over linking Kuwait’s gas network to Iran’s South Pars field. -WW
“Iran’s gas transportation network has already expanded to Khorramshahr in southern Iran and it’s possible to further extend the network to Kuwait,” said Reza Almasi in an interview with Mehr News Agency on Monday.
He said that the plan to link the two countries’ gas networks includes building a submarine pipeline to Kuwait’s border, which is possible in a short time considering the infrastructure of the southern Iranian province of Khuzestan.
The issue of annually exporting 3-4 billion cubic meters of natural gas pumped from Iran’s South Pars gas field to Kuwait was the one of major topics raised in a meeting in November, 2009 between Iranian Oil Minister, Masoud Mirkazemi, and his Kuwaiti counterpart, Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah, in Tehran.
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