Iran discovers large gas deposit in Caspian Sea - TV RIA Novosti, PUBLISHED December 11, 2011 A large natural gas deposit with reserves of 50 trillion cubic feet or 1.42 trillion cubic meters was discovered in the Iranian part of the Caspian Sea, Iran's Shama TV channel said on Sunday quoting country's Oil Minister Rostam Qassemi. Qassemi said that reserves of the new deposit at a depth of 700 meters exceeded a total volume of proven gas reserves of 11 trillion cubic feet in the country's part of the Caspian Sea by almost 400 percent. Iran's gas reserves are the second largest in the world after Russia's and amount to about 16 percent of all world reserves. Other news: Belarus agrees to Russian building of nuclear station Belarus has already started working on the site, Lukashenko said. Russian specialists embark on construction of Vietnamese nuke plant Our Vietnamese partners on December 1 issued a document agreeing the beginning of work. Russia, Bangladesh sign agreement to build nuclear power plant The agreement was signed by Rosatom's head Sergei Kiriyenko and Bangladeshi Minister for Science, Information and Technology Yeafesh Osman. |
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