Perspective of Iran's role in GECF
By Dalga Khatinoglu, John M. Roberts, exclusively for IRNA The article was written Dalga Khatinoglu, expert on Iran's energy issues, head of Iran news service at Trend Agency. With the assistance of John M. Roberts, Chief Analyst and Head of Strategy, Natural Gas Europe. Roberts has testified to UK parliamentary committees on Caspian, Russian, Turkish, Kurdish and Mideast energy security issues. He is a Senior Partner with Methinks Ltd, a consultancy specializing in the inter-relationship between energy, economic development and politics. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the US. He was previously a Managing Editor with Platts and Financial Times Energy. Iran is preparing to play host to a summit of the world’s major gas producing countries against a background of rising prospects for major Iranian gas exports in the near future despite persistently high domestic demand. The meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) on 23 November brings to