TEHRAN – The managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) announced here on Sunday that tender documents related to the 9th cross-country gas pipeline project will be issued as of the next week.

“The project would cost 8 billion dollars,” Reza Kassaeizadeh said.
“Two Iranian consortiums (included of three companies), a Turkish company, and two European companies have been qualified for outsourcing the project,” he added.
“The 56-inch pipeline starts from Assaluyeh in southern province of Bushehr and extends to Bazargan border in northwestern Iran, carrying 110 million cubic meters of gas per day,” he added.
The project will be in the form of BOO (build, operate, own) and it should be completed by 2014, the official noted.
Kassaeizadeh remarked that the 1,800-km-long pipeline with 17 gas pressure stations will be built to transfer the country’s gas to Turkey and Europe and to meet the shortage in western areas of the country