Iran to pipe gas to oil field shared with UAE

"By September, Iran will have transferred gas from Salman oil field in southern Hormuzgan province to Mobarak oil field, shared with the UAE, through southern Sirri Island once a project to lay 30-inch overland pipelines with a total length of 220 kilometers is completed," IRNA reported today.

The 78 percent completed project will cost $ 160 million and become operational in next week going over 74 kilometers of land.

The project, "the biggest pipeline project in Iranian territorial waters, are under implementation entirely by Iranian experts... once the pipeline project is completed, operations will start to install new platforms in the region," IRNA reported officials saying.