Tehran, Sep 20 (IANS) The Iranian Oil Service has said that the nation will before long buy 9 million cubic meters each day of gas from Russia through Azerbaijan.

The service declared the arrangement in a report giving subtleties of a $40-billion arrangement between the Public Iranian Oil Organization (NIOC) and Russia’s state-claimed gas maker Gazprom arrived at in July, Xinhua news office detailed, refering to the semi-official Fars news office.

The service added it will before long get 6 million cubic meters each day of gas from Russia under a trade arrangement to send out them in LNG (melted petroleum gas) to different nations from southern Iran.

The arrangement likewise incorporates the consummation of gas pipelines from Iran to Pakistan and Oman and completing various LNG creation projects in the country.

The service’s news administration Shana has detailed that the improvement of Iran’s Kish and North Standards gas fields, as well as six oilfields, helping strain in the South Standards Gas Field, finishing of LNG projects, trade of gas and oil based goods and development of gas move pipelines are a portion of the arrangement’s features.