Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) Hamid Reza Araqi said that one the most cost-effective ways for balancing the pressure of the gas network and supplying remote areas with natural gas is construction of Mini-LNG plants.
The official said that the mini-LNG plants are to be constructed in four border regions with low temperature, adding that each facility will have the storage capacity of 90 million cubic meters (mcm) of natural gas.
Araqi said gas supply to villages through mini-LNG facilities will be more economic than pipe networks.
He said the mini-LNG plants require $100mln in investment, adding that these plants would stabilize national gas supply network.
In June, Chief of The Natural Gas Storage Company Massoud Samivand said that his company has identified 20 locations in Iran to build small liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities.
He noted that the plants will be built by Iran’s private sector companies, and said, "Some five investors have so far obtained the necessary license for signing contract to set up the plants."
Samivand said that the NGSC closely cooperates with universities and knowledge-based companies such as Tehran University, Sharif University of Technology and Tarbiat Modaress University as well as Shiraz and Shahroud universities.