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 Turkey has fully switched to gas from Azerbaijan and Russia due to a halt in gas supplies from Iran, Turkish media reports.

The National Iranian Petrochemical Company (NIPC) and a Chinese consortium are about to finalize a deal whereby China will invest some $1 billion in petrochemical projects in Iran, the Mehr news agency reported on Saturday.

A consortium of companies building the Nabucco gas pipeline designed to pump natural gas from the Caspian region to Europe bypassing Russia has delayed its plans to include Iran in the project, the consortium said on Monday.

Iran is preparing to increase the volume of gasoline it produces by 60 million liters a year, deputy Iranian Oil Minister Abdolhosein Bayat said.

Iran and Venezuela have agreed to form a joint shipping company to transport crude, Deputy Iranian Oil Minister Hosein Shirazi said.

Rosneft, Gazprom Neft and Tatneft may begin delivering gasoline to Iran in a month, the head of the Iran Commission of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry said Thursday.

China and Iran are conducting negotiations to use the Chinese Yuan in settling oil contracts to thwart sanctions being imposed by the West, Iran News has reported.

Iran’s Oil Ministry said Friday that it had signed a 1 billion euro ($1.3 billion) pipeline deal to take gas to Turkey, while Ankara denied that the state was involved and a firm called Som Petrol said it was the partner.

Officials in Iran have asked international companies to come on board for oil and gas projects, despite the new sanctions imposed on the Islamic republic.

Mehr News Agency reported that Iran’s Ambassador to Astana, Qorban Seifi and Kazakhstan Oil and Gas MinisterMr Sauat Mynbayev held a meeting in Astana last week.

The Belarusian Ambassador to Iran has declared his country’s readiness to buy Iranian oil regardless of the project to produce oil at Iranian Jofeir field.

Iran, facing international sanctions over its nuclear energy plans, is likely to reduce gasoline imports by 75 percent by 2015 as it expands refining capacity and tackles subsidies, the International Energy Agency said.

Gazprom Neft is looking to expand its foreign operations into oil-rich Cuba and Iran, which are both hindered by trade sanctions, CEO Alexander Dyukov said Tuesday.

Iran faced growing economic pressure on Monday after two Western oil firms halted business with it, and a Gulf Arab country seen as a trade lifeline for Tehran moved to freeze some Iranian-linked bank accounts.

Russia wants the United States to guarantee that Washington's unilateral sanctions against Iran will not affect Russian companies, a Kremlin aid has said.

European Union leaders agreed tighter sanctions against Iran on Thursday, including measures to block investment in the oil and gas sector and curtail refining and natural gas capability.

Iran's National Oil Company (NIOC) and Spain's Gas Natural SDG S.A. are planning to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal for central Europe near Rogotin in southern Dalmatia, Balkans News reported.

China intends to build six supertankers for Iran to transport liquified gas, Iran News reports, citing sources in the gas production industry.

Brazilian and Turkish government officials said Sunday that their leaders had brokered a tentative compromise with Iran in the international standoff over Iran’s nuclear program, a development that could undermine efforts in the United Nations to impose new sanctions on the Iranians.

Iran intends to activate its relations with Azerbaijan in the gas sector, 1news.az has reported.