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The Iran-Armenia Gas Pipeline is a 140 km pipeline from Iran to Armenia. The 100 km Iranian section runs from Tabriz to Iran-Armenia border. The Armenian section runs from Meghri region to Sardarian. The diameter of pipeline is 700 mm and it costs about 220 million USD. The initial capacity of pipeline is 1.1 bcm of natural gas annually, which will be increased up to 2.3 bcm by 2019. The contract was signed for 20 years. To reach the planned amount, the Armenian side is planned to lay some more 197 km of the pipe. For each cubic meter of the Iranian gas, Armenia is supposed to return 3 kwh of electric energy. The pipeline starts operation on 20 December 2006, and was officially inaugurated by the Presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran and Robert Kocharian of Armenia on 19 March 2007. There are discussion to build also second pipeline from Iran to Armenia.
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