How did Iran failed in exporting gas?

According to Energy Press, Seyyed Mehdi Hosseini, while evaluating the plan of Turkey and Turkmenistan to export gas to Europe, said: Currently, Russia does not have the right conditions to sell gas due to the specific political conditions, the war in Ukraine, sanctions, and rising tensions with the Westerners. According to this issue, there are two possibilities, one is that these issues, i.e. the export of gas from a route other than Russia to Europe, is a coordination between NATO, Turkey and Turkmenistan in order to avoid Russia’s share in the sectors where sanctions are bypassed; and this is a point of pressure that NATO puts on Russia. Of course, in order for Turkmenistan to be able to deliver its gas to Turkey, it must either pass through Kazakhstan and Russia, which has its own problems and there is no other network except the Russian network, or it must cross the Caspian Sea and then go to Azerbaijan and Turkey and then to To connect Europe, this route also seems to be expensive, regardless. If they are going to remove Russia from the distance; They cannot use their network, while the Caspian requires billions of dollars of investment to build a pipeline due to its depth, which I don’t think has much justification, so I believe that it is a political issue rather than being implemented.

If there is money, we will have 18 phases of new South Pars

Referring to Iran’s position in the gas trade, he stated: We have lost all our share in the gas market by our own hands. Now we have defined projects and are ready to develop them, if money and facilities are available, we will have the equivalent of 18 phases of South Pars, i.e. 18 billion cubic feet of gas per day.

Why did the export plans remain unfinished?

This senior expert in the field of energy said: We had defined many plans for export, phase 11 was supposed to be built in 2003, and ParsLNG would be fed with its gas, and we would even sell gas to nearby markets, phase 13 was also supposed to be built and The contract was signed and Banba was supposed to send gas to distant markets with the construction of Persian LNG. 12 years ago, we had a signed contract with the UAE, which is what Qatar is doing now with the Dolphin pipeline, but we did not implement this contract either. Therefore, we ourselves are to blame, or we do not have national interests in mind, or we do not know, or we seek to exclude each other in a political fight.

We can produce 5 million barrels of oil, but we have no money

He stated: We have a defined project for oil, about 1,600,000 barrels per day, which in a proper atmosphere and international interaction can quickly reach production and increase our capacity to over 5 million barrels. But we can’t because we don’t have money, the result is that once we were the first in OPEC, we reached the second and today we are the third, and Iraq with half the population of Iran has moved ahead of us with about 5 million barrels and has about 1.5 to 2 times our economic power, which is It can even be a security risk. We have been doing it this way for the past few decades and now we should not expect any result other than the current situation.