Leaders of major natural gas producing countries are arriving in Iran on the eve of a key summit on Monday.

The Extraordinary Ministerial Meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum concluded in Tehran on Saturday.

Iran's Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh says Tehran plans to boost gas exports once the sanctions are removed under a deal with the P-5+1 group.

Iran will turn into a leading player in the global gas market in “the near future”, Deputy Petroleum Minister Amir Hossein Zamaninia says.

Iran and Oman have signed an agreement on studying an undersea gas pipeline across the Persian Gulf in a project worth $60 billion, managing director of the National Iranian Gas Exports Company (NIGEC) says.

The European Commission estimates that Iran could become a major natural gas supplier to the European Union by the next decade, a new report says.

Iran has held “serious” talks with the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman for sales of natural gas, an energy official says, adding exports to neighboring Iraq will begin soon.

Iran commissions new facility to boost natural gas exports to neighboring countries in Caucasus and Anatolia to 60 million cubic meters per day.

Iran's deputy oil minister says neighboring countries are the Islamic Republic’s top priority for developing gas trade.

An Iranian gas industry official says the pipeline that will take Iran's gas to Iraq will come on-stream before the end of the current month.