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Iran resumed gas exports to Turkey on Sunday, almost a week after the flow was halted by an explosion in eastern Turkey, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said.

A blast, which occurred last Monday morning at an eastern region of Turkey had halted Iran's gas export to Turkey, the Fars News Agency reported.

"Turkey is currently getting natural gas from Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan and we did not have any supply problems," Taner said.

During the past three years seven terrorist attacked were carried out on Iran-Turkey gas pipeline, halting the flow of Iranian gas into Turkey for 42 days.

The 42-days halt reduced one billion cubic meters from Iran 's total gas exports to Turkey, the Mehr news agency reported.

Iran exports some 25 million cubic meters of gas to Turkey per day. According to the 25-year agreement between the two countries, Iran is obliged to supply Turkey with annually 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas and if either side fails to fulfill its commitment, it is liable for compensation.

Iran will have the capacity to boost gas exports to Turkey and other European countries once the 6th cross country gas pipeline come on stream, the National Iranian Gas Company's managing director said in September.

The pipeline, which is projected to extend 1,300 kilometers, will increase the capacity to transfer natural gas to Turkey to 80 million cubic meters (bcm) per day.

Daily gas production in Iran is about 600 million cubic meters, and this is projected to increase to 1.2 billion cubic meters in the future. According to the National Iranian Gas Company, the country's oil and natural gas reserves account for 10 percent and 16 percent of total world reserves, respectively.

Iran with 155 billion barrels of recoverable oil reserves, ranks fourth worldwide after Venezuela, Saudi Arabia and Canada.

With 34 trillion cubic meters of natural gas reserves, Iran has the world's second-largest natural gas reserves after Russia.