According to Mehdi Jamshidi-Dana in a press conference on Wednesday, "Currently, there are 37,400 kilometers of high pressure transmission lines in the country and in terms of global ranking, we have the fourth place in this sector in the world which is unique in the Middle East.”

He said that the length of high pressure gas transmission lines in Iran 3 times the diameter of the earth which is unique in different climates of the country, adding: "In total, these lines have 86 pressure boosting stations and each have about three, four or five turbo-compressors, for a total of 316 turbo-compressors.”