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Publisher Summary This chapter explains that on the basis of current reserves estimates and generous projections of domestic consumption, exports, and reinjection, Iran's natural gas reserves are expected to last well into the next century. Thus, the problems of natural gas supply in Iran do not concern physical availability, but rather location of natural gas reserves and their efficient utilization. Iran also has huge nonassociated natural gas fields; many discovered only recently, whose potential is at least equal to and perhaps twice as much as that of the associated reserves. Important nonassociated natural gas fields are located in Khuzestan, Qeshm Island, Kangan, Khangiran, and offshore in the Persian Gulf. Nearly all of Iran's natural gas production has been in association with oil produced from the Khuzestan and offshore oil fields. Iran's associated and nonassociated natural gas is earmarked for use internally as producer's fuel in the oil fields; for reinjection into the fields to increase recovery; for general residential, commercial, and industrial consumption; and for petrochemical feedstocks.
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