Politics reek havoc with Iran's gas-pipeline plans

摘要

IT IS HARD to tell whether senior Iranian energy officials believe their own rhetoric. If the official propaganda is to be believed, the country will triple its gas production to 475bn cubic metres a year (cm/y) by 2020, making the Islamic Republic responsible for 10% of global output. And if all the gas supply agreements that the government has signed were put into effect, the country would be connected by pipeline to Europe, the Arab world and the Asian subcontinent.