Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company says pipeline could be ready before the end of August Managing Director of the Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company Alireza Gharibi said the company finished testing 100 kilometers (about 62 miles) of pipeline that will run from Iran to neighboring Iraq. Gharibi said the company hopes to export natural gas to Iraq in 20 days, reports Iran’s PressTV . “At present, we are discharging water from the pipeline and after a few final tests, which will take to the end of this month, the pipeline will be ready for exports,” Gharibi was quoted as saying by the Oil Ministry’s official SHANA news agency. Gharibi said that the first phase of the projects operations will have a capacity of 5 million cubic meters (Mcf/d) of gas to Iraq and the figure will rise after the completion of the Sixth Iranian Gas Trunkline (IGAT-6). […]