{"id":18008,"date":"2026-08-12T11:16:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=18008"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T11:16:53","slug":"iran-pakistan-forming-energy-task-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/18008\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran, Pakistan forming energy task forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"pre-content-text\"><a style=\"color: #0038a8;\" href=\"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/\">RoydadNaft &#8211; <\/a><\/span>\u00a0Iran and Pakistan have agreed to establish specialized working groups to follow up on major agreements involving energy trade, Iranian oil minister said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"item-body\">\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad made the remarks during a meeting with Pakistan\u2019s Interior Minister Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi. The two sides discussed areas of mutual interest in the energy sector and agreed to form expert-level working groups to pursue and finalize the issues raised during the talks.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Paknejad highlighted the two countries\u2019 long land border as a key advantage for expanding energy trade. He said the framework and groundwork for cooperation in this area had previously been discussed by the two sides.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Under the agreement, Iranian expert teams will travel to Islamabad and Pakistani teams will visit Tehran to continue the discussions, Paknejad said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He noted that Pakistan needs petroleum products and that Iran has the capacity to export some of those products. \u201cWherever we have export capacity, we will meet their needs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Paknejad added that the two countries could also capitalize on their geographic and territorial advantages to expand energy cooperation.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Regarding gas cooperation, he said the two countries had previously discussed a pipeline project to export Iranian natural gas to Pakistan. The ministers reviewed the broader aspects of the proposal and agreed that expert groups should conduct more detailed technical discussions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran and Pakistan have agreed to establish specialized working groups to follow up on major agreements involving energy trade, Iranian oil minister said Tuesday.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,17,18,22,36],"tags":[],"services":[],"class_list":["post-18008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-economy","category-headline","category-iran","category-lastnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18010,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18008\/revisions\/18010"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18008"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=18008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}