TEHRAN - The volume of natural gas stored in Iran’s Shourijeh storage since the beginning of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20) has exceeded 2.0 billion cubic meters (bcm), registering a 11-percent rise compared to the same period last year, a gas official said.

According to Yahya Feizi, the increase in the volume of storage in Shourijeh, is going to increase the supply capacity of the facility by 3.0 mcm per day in the cold season, Mehr News Agency reported.

Iran has two major natural gas storage facilities in Sarajeh and Shourijeh, in which every year the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) stores the gas received from gas refineries all over the country to be used in the colder months of the year.

Iran has two major natural gas storage facilities in Sarajeh and Shourijeh, in which every year the National Iranian Gas Company stores the gas received from gas refineries all over the country to be used in the colder months of the year.

As one of the world’s top gas producers, Iran has been following a plan to expand its underground natural gas storage capacity to ensure that enough natural gas is available during peak demand periods to avoid electricity supply shortfalls in the future.

According to the National Iranian Gas Company’s plans, the capacity of the two storage facilities, Sarajeh and Shourijeh, is planned to increase to over seven billion cubic meters in the near future.

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