The CEO of Russias state-owned energy conglomerate Gazprom, Alexey Miller, visited Iran on 28 February for a meeting with senior officials to discuss energy cooperation and a $40 billion investment agreement signed last year with the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).
As part of the visit, working meetings of Alexey Miller with Mohammad Mokhber, First Vice President of Iran, Javad Owji, Minister of Petroleum of Iran, Chairman of the Board of Directors of National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), and Mohsen Khojastehmehr, Deputy Minister of Petroleum of Iran, CEO of NIOC, took place in Tehran, Gazprom said in a press release.
The statement also highlights that the meetings addressed the cooperation areas in the energy sector in furtherance of the Memorandum signed between Gazprom and NIOC in 2022.
Ahead of his trip on Tuesday, Miller met Irans Ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali, in Moscow to discuss issues of energy cooperation.