MOSCOW, March 1. /TASS/. During a visit to Iran, Gazprom delegation led by the holding's Chairman of the Board of Directors Alexey Miller discussed energy cooperation and memorandum with Iranian NIOC, Gazprom said in a press release.

"A Gazprom delegation headed by Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company's Management Committee, paid a working visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran today. 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," the press service said.

According to the company, "the meetings addressed the cooperation areas in the energy sector in furtherance of the Memorandum signed between Gazprom and NIOC in 2022."

In July 2022, Gazprom and National Iranian Oil Company signed the Memorandum of Understanding for strategic cooperation. The document aims to evaluate cooperation prospects in the following areas - developing Iranian gas and oil fields, performing swap transactions with natural gas and petroleum products, implementing large-scale and small-scale LNG projects, constructing gas trunklines, and cooperation in science and technology.