Iran’s pipeline gas exports rise about 3% in 2025 to 15.4 bcm, EI reports
Iran exported 15.4 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas via pipeline in 2025, up about 3% from a year earlier, according to the latest Statistical Review of World Energy published by the Energy Institute.
The figures, cited by Tasnim news agency, showed Iran exported about 15 bcm of pipeline gas in 2024.
Iran, which holds the world's second-largest natural gas reserves after Russia at around 34 trillion cubic meters, shipped 7.4 bcm of gas to Turkey and 7.5 bcm to Iraq in 2025, its two largest export markets.
The country also exported 0.5 bcm of natural gas to the former Soviet republics during the year.
Iran's high-pressure natural gas transmission network measured about 41,000 kilometers as of May 2025, making it the world's fourth-largest by network length and the largest in the Middle East.
Norway was the world's largest pipeline gas exporter in 2025, with exports totaling 115 bcm. Russia exported 101 bcm, followed by the United States with 94 bcm, Canada with 87 bcm, Turkmenistan with 37 bcm, Algeria with 32 bcm, Azerbaijan with 23 bcm and Qatar with 19 bcm.