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| Iran ready to share gas with 'Muslim brotherly countries' |
| 2007-02-06 |
| Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said his country is ready to share its massive gas reserves with "Muslim brotherly countries, including Pakistan" during his talks with visiting Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf. He called for strengthening of ties between Iran and Pakistan keeping in view the abundant cultural, historical and religious commonalties shared by the two countries. Receiving Musharraf during his one-day visit here Monday, Khamenei said given the growing importance of energy in the world, Iran is ready to share its massive gas reserves with Pakistan, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported. "Iran is also rich in gas and we are ready to allow Muslim brotherly countries, including Pakistan, to benefit from Iran's reserves and facilities," IRNA quoted Khamenei as saying while referring to the project for laying a pipeline to transfer gas from Iran to India via Pakistan. Expressing happiness over the price coding for Iran's natural gas, Musharraf hoped that the process for laying the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline - called the Peace Pipeline Project - would begin soon. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #18 OP: source? |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-06 22:10 |
| #17 Ahmadinejad: pull my finger! |
| Posted by: DMFD 2007-02-06 19:12 |
| #16 The US has several trillion cubic feet of reserves that are not being tapped because congress won't allow it. They're offshore in the Gulf, in the Pacific off California, in some parts of the Western States, and off the coast of the Carolinas and Florida. That doesn't include anything in Alaska, or off the coast of Puerto Rico. Another major part of the problem is a lack of infrastructure to get the gas from where it is to where it's most needed. There are a couple of coal seams in western Colorado that could be tapped for several million cubic feet, but there's no pipeline to get it to customers, and most of the gas is in a national forest. We're really bad about shooting ourselves in the foot as far as resources are concerned. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-02-06 14:40 |
| #15 Pakistan will almost certainly attempt to use the gas supply as leverage against India and that has many Indians calling for any pipeline to run along the sea floor, outside Pak limits (which would be horrendously expensive). Alterntatively, additional LNG regasification plants and shipment by Tanker would be preferable. |
| Posted by: john 2007-02-06 14:37 |
| #14 A helpful disquisition, Anguper Hupomosing9418. Thanks! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-02-06 12:06 |
| #13 Natural gas used to heat homes needs little or no refining, just pressure regulation as it's brought into use. I know some farms in Ohio with gas wells that are heated with gas directly from a nearby well head. That, and the royalty checks, keeps some farms in business. "Rich gas" has a liquid component lacking in "lean gas", which makes the Rich more valuable when the valuable natural gas liquids are extracted for use. Not sure how this is done. The US has been running right along the boundary of an absolute shortage of NG, relying on pipelined Canadian (supplies 90% of US imports) and Mexican imports to keep warm this winter. I doubt very much any net exports from the US will ever be possible. The US can't import more LNG than at present because of the additional necessary import facilities not being available on our shores, and not being likely to be constructed due to NIMBYism and other forms of domestic mulish obstinacy. As a result the US has the highest priced NG in the world (my domestic price has gone up 600% since 1980!). 58% of world NG reserves are in Russia, Iran and Qatar. Even if India were willing to import NG by pipeline from Iran, it would still be at risk of political & terrorist manipulation of its supply line, as Europe has been learning from Russia. Excuse me, it's 3.7 deg F outside, I must go downstairs & shovel more dollar bills into my gas furnace. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-02-06 11:14 |
| #12 The Indians shouldn't bite at all out of principle: the pipeline goes through Pakiwakiland, who will assert control over the spigot at opportune times. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2007-02-06 10:57 |
| #11 India is not willing to pay the price for the gas that Iran is demanding. The negotiations are stuck. There is another hiccup and that is the export of 'lean' versus 'rich' gas. Iran wants to sell lean gas (suitable for power generation only) while India wants rich gas, to also provide feedstock to India's huge chemical and plastics industry. Unless that pricing dispute is settled, there will be no gas pipeline and no gas to brotherly muslim Pakistan since that market is too small to justify the expense of construction. Only with kaffir India as a customer will the pipeline be built. |
| Posted by: john 2007-02-06 10:50 |
| #10 We import Natural Gas, by pipeline (IIUC) from Mexico and Canada, and even some LNG from Algeria. The economics isnt there for us to export NG to India. India can import LNG from the gulfies, but Iran via pipeline can be competitive. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2007-02-06 10:05 |
| #9 Yes Iran is presumed to have huge deposits of natural gas. However, it will take many billions to drill, establish the collection and distribution networds and lay transmission pipelines. That's where the 'muslim brothers' come in. Iran doesn't have the funds to build the infrastructure and with all their best people working on their nuclear stuff, they probably don't have enough technical people to do the work even if they had the funds. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-02-06 10:05 |
| #8 Wait a minute, someone's full of gas on this article. Isn't Paki-Waki majority Sunni and Iran majority Shi'a? I thought the two couldn't work together at all? That's what the MSM keeps telling me. Oh, I'm sooooo confused. And, what's with India importing gas from Iran? Can we not supply them, or just not enough? |
| Posted by: BA 2007-02-06 09:46 |
| #7 Jim, theyre talking about exporting Natural Gas, not gasoline, which is refined from Petroleum. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2007-02-06 09:36 |
| #6 I thought Iran had such poor refining capabilities that they were a major gas importer! |
| Posted by: Jim 2007-02-06 08:44 |
| #5 Why the need for nuclear power then??????????? A bomb. |
| Posted by: Angenter Crolugum3645 2007-02-06 08:44 |
| #4 Dammit Ali! That's not the kind of gas I wanted. |
| Posted by: Perv 2007-02-06 08:35 |
| #3 Gas? Iran is full of beans. |
| Posted by: doc 2007-02-06 08:32 |
| #2 Iran is also rich in gas and we are ready to allow Muslim brotherly countries, including Pakistan, to benefit from Iran's reserves and facilities Why the need for nuclear power then??????????? |
| Posted by: Ebbolump Glomotle9608 2007-02-06 07:35 |
| #1 Well, eating bean breakfast burritos will do that...oh. Not that kind of gas. Nevermind. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2007-02-06 07:24 |