An official with the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said the country"s current natural gas production capacity stood at 810 million cubic meters per day.

According to NIGC, Mehdi Jamshidi Dana, director of dispatching at NIGC, said that in terms of the volume of gas distribution, Iran is second to none in the world.

He said his department was responsible for managing distribution of gas in the gas network.

According to him, an equivalent of 5 million barrels of crude oil of gas was being distributed in the country.