TEHRAN – Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said Iranian companies are ready for contribution to Iraq’s oil and gas projects, Shana reported.

The minister made the remarks in a meeting with an Iraqi delegation who visited Iran on Tuesday to pass on their oil minister Jabar al-Luaibi’s congratulations to Zanganeh regarding his retention as Iran’ oil minister.

During this meeting Zanganeh noted that Iranian oil ministry is ready for expansion of mutual cooperation with Iraq in oil and gas industries.

The official also expressed his ministry’s support for continuous gas exports to Iraq.

Iran in June started exporting 7 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas to Iraq on a daily basis and the two sides have it on the agenda to increase the figure to 35 mcm/d.

In the meeting, Iraqi oil minister’s representative expressed his country’s satisfaction with the progress in joint fields development projects’ follow up meetings and said, “We hope the two countries’ cooperation in joint fields expand to other areas of the oil industry as well.”

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