The Global Energy Monitor Research Institute announced in a report that 69,700 kilometers of gas pipelines are under construction worldwide, representing an 18% increase from the previous year.
The construction cost of these projects is estimated at around $200 billion.
According to this report, 80% of the world's gas pipeline construction projects are concentrated on the Asian continent, and the three countries of China, India and Iran respectively hold the largest share of the 69,700 km of projects. of gas pipelines under construction in the world. having assigned
China has the largest share in this field. This country is building 30,300 kilometers of gas pipelines in the form of 150 projects.
India, which is developing and modernizing its gas transportation network, comes second in this area and plans to double the length of its gas transportation network by 2025.
The country is building 15,000 kilometers of gas pipelines at a cost of $26.2 billion.
Iran ranks third in the world in terms of the length of gas pipelines under construction.
This country is currently building five thousand kilometers of pipelines at a cost of 17.8 billion dollars.
Iran is currently building the 1,200-kilometer cross-border gas pipeline No. 11, which is expected to be completed in 2026 at a cost of four billion dollars.
The capacity of this line should be 40 billion cubic meters per year.
National pipeline No. 9 is also entrusted in 2022 to the 13th government after repeated delays.
This line, which is the sixth gas pipeline under construction in the world in terms of length, will help Iran meet its needs at the peak of gas demand for the domestic and industrial sectors.
The length of this line is 1,900 km, and it can transport 40 billion cubic meters of gas per year.
The estimated cost of building this line is $3.4 billion.
In addition to the construction of 5,000 kilometers of gas pipelines in Iran, the construction of 1,600 kilometers of gas pipelines, at a cost of $9.9 billion, is also in the design and proposal stage.
This report also mentioned the issue of importing Pakistani gas from Iran and wrote that Iran had completed the gas pipeline necessary for this project on its territory, but that despite its commitments, Pakistan had not been in able to build the gas pipeline to transport Iranian gas within its territory. border.
In August 2023, Pakistani authorities invoked a force majeure situation in order to avoid a heavy fine for the contract with Iran, which Iran of course did not accept and spoke of a fine of up to 'to 20 billion dollars for Pakistan.
Russia, Pakistan, America, Nigeria, Italy, Argentina and Canada rank fourth to tenth, respectively, in terms of the length of pipelines under construction for gas transportation.
The total pipelines under construction in the United States stretch 1,500 kilometers and cost $11.5 billion.