Gazprom delegation visits Iran
RELEASE
Release
A Gazprom delegation headed by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company's Management Committee, paid a working visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran today.
As part of the visit, working meetings of Alexey Miller with Mohammad Mokhber, First Vice President of Iran, Javad Owji, Minister of Petroleum of Iran, Chairman of the Board of Directors of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), and Mohsen Khojastehmehr, Deputy Minister of Petroleum of Iran, CEO of NIOC, took place in Tehran.
The meetings addressed the cooperation areas in the energy sector in furtherance of the Memorandum signed between Gazprom and NIOC in 2022.
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.