The scheme also became a political football for parliamentary factions in Tehran.
There may be problems completing the Igat-5 pipeline, which is to carry the treated gas, on time.
The eventual client at the depleting Aghajari oilfield may or may not be ready to receive the gas, but the offshore production and onshore treatment facilities, which suffered potentially crippling problems, now look like being ready by the end of 2006, or early 2007 at the latest.
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