Iran Says Wants to Work With Qatar to Boost Gas Output
Having already built a multi-billion dollar a month LNG export business -- which is bankrolling Qatar's 2022 World Cup soccer tournament and its growing political ambitions -- Doha has imposed a moratorium on any new projects on the field to preserve it for future generations.
The self-imposed production project ban is expected to last until at least 2015. Zanganeh did not say why he thinks U.S. ally Qatar would want to work with Iran to pump more gas.
State-run Qatar Petroleum was not available for comment.
Oil Industry
Zanganeh, who previously filled the post under the reformist president Mohammad Khatami, hopes to revive Iran's sanctions-battered oil exports through a more conciliatory stance in Iran's nuclear standoff with the West.
In comments reported by Shana on Tuesday from the interview on state television, he said Iran's foreign ministry could help the oil ministry in its quest to reverse a slump in sales over the last year.
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs by developing marketing for oil sales and the Ministry of Petroleum by enhancing production can play an effective role in oil exports," Zanganeh said.
Sanctions imposed by Washington and the European Union in a bid to deter Iran from its nuclear enrichment activities have cut Iran's oil exports to less than half their from pre-sanction levels of about 2.2 million barrels per day.
(Reporting by Daniel Fineren; editing by Keiron Henderson)
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