TEHRAN - The head of National Iranian Gas Transmission Company (NIGTC) has said that 99 percent of the country’s gas transmission equipment and facilities are domestically-made, noting that the country's gas industry is on the verge of complete self-sufficiency.

Gholam-Abbas Hosseini put the area of the country’s high-pressure gas network at 40,000 kilometers and stressed the significant role of the NIGTC employees in maintaining and development the mentioned network.

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