EghtesadOnline: Projects to connect 10 towns and 1,900 villages across the country to the national gas have been completed and new subscribers will join the grid this week, the National Iranian Gas Company's director for gas distribution said.

EghtesadOnline: Despite freezing temperatures and heavy snowfalls in different parts of Iran, which have led to a record high gas consumption, the gas grid is stable throughout the country, although a slight pressure drop can be seen at some endpoints, and only subscribers in Torbat Jam County, Khorasan Razavi Province, suffered gas outage, the oil minister said.

EghtesadOnline: In line with declared government policy to provide less-developed regions with natural gas, a thousand kilometers of gas pipelines will be laid for cities in Sistan-Baluchestan Province by 2021, managing director of Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company said.

EghtesadOnline: In line with the government's goal of linking 90% of suburban homes to the national gas network by 2022, the grid is passing through rugged mountain areas in Yazd, Gilan, Kurdestan, Semnan and Fars provinces.

EghtesadOnline: Natural gas grid in western Kurdistan Province has expanded 300 kilometers over the past five months, managing director of the provincial gas company said.

EghtesadOnline: To boost production in the giant South Pars Gas Field in the Persian Gulf, stability of the gas grid will be raised by the end of this fiscal year in March 2020), managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company said.

EghtesadOnline: Gas supply to Yazd Province has been expedited and almost 90% of its small towns and villages are now connected to the national gas grid, managing director of the provincial gas company said.

EghtesadOnline: Expanding national gas grid in small towns and villages can help increase the wave of "reverse migration"—from bigger cities to nearby smaller towns and suburban areas.

EghtesadOnline: The National Iranian Gas Company supplied 1.8 billion cubic meters of natural gas to western Lorestan Province in the last fiscal (ended March 20), the company’s deputy for gas supply said.

EghtesadOnline: Three thousand rural areas have been connected to the gas grid since the begging of the current fiscal (ends in March), the managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company said.