Hussain al-Shahristani made the remarks on the sidelines of the World Energy Congress in the South Korean city of Daegu on Wednesday, the Iranian Oil Ministry’s official news agency, SHANA, reported on Friday.
“In Iraq, we have signed contracts with Iran to import gas for our power generation stations in the central part of the country. We are about to sign another contract to import Iranian gas to the south of the country,” Shahristani stated.
“These are short-term contracts just to give us time to run new power stations on gas,” the senior Iraqi official added.
“The pipeline that we have already signed for is under construction… it will be ready next month,” Shahristani said.
On July 21, Iran signed an agreement with Iraq to deliver natural gas to its western neighbor.
