Alexey Miller and Iranian Ambassador to Russia Kazem Jalali discuss energy cooperation
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A working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Kazem Jalali, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Russian Federation, took place today.
The parties discussed relevant issues pertaining to their energy cooperation.
Background
In July 2022, Gazprom and National Iranian Oil Company signed the Memorandum of Understanding for strategic cooperation. The document envisages the analysis of cooperation prospects, inter alia, in the following areas: development of Iranian gas and oil fields, performance of swap transactions with natural gas and petroleum products, implementation of large-scale and small-scale LNG projects, construction of gas trunklines, and sci-tech and technology cooperation.
Gazprom has had a Representative Office in Iran since 2002.