Iran-Syria Gas Pipeline to Pass Through Iraq


Reported: 08:52 AM - Aug/13/10
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Iraq said Thursday that it has agreed to allow Iran to build a natural gas pipeline to Syria through Iraqi territory. Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahristani approved the project in principle at a meeting Wednesday with a visiting Iranian delegation in Baghdad. The Iraqi ministry says the two sides will form a committee to study the Iraqi portion of the pipeline's route.

Iraqi and Iranian oil ministry officials also discussed the status of oil fields that straddle the Iraqi-Iranian border, which have been the source of disputes in the past. The fields comprise many of the oil fields the Baghdad government plans to develop over the next decade. Petroleumworld.com reports that Iran is building a pipeline to Turkey along the Iraq border as part of a recent contract, which could be extended to include a branch through Iraq and on to Syria.

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