Reza Noshadi said on Wednesday at a ceremony to sign the contract for gas storage project in Khangiran Field (Shurijeh D storage plant) said: “Gas production has increased from 7 million cubic meters per day to 870 million cubic meters per day since the beginning of the Revolution to the extent that some observers believe that we should not have supplied gas to some cities and villages, that is, the point of criticism has been the busy schedule of the National Iranian Gas Company and the Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company.”

He added: "Today, 1,870 kilometers of large-sized pipes are on the agenda of Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company. The number of stations that are being built at the same time has doubled and this is a record, so today the country's gas industry is a respectable peak.”

Noshadi continued: “Shurijeh field, whose current storage capacity is 20 million cubic meters per day, is to be increased to 40 million cubic meters per day and from 2.25 billion cubic meters of storage to 4.5 billion cubic meters.”