Iranian petroleum minister, Dr. Seyed Masoud Mirkazemi met Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov in Ashkhabad on Wednesday.

The public relations National iranian gas company reported that the two sides talked on bilateral issues including oil and gas industry. 

The petroleum minister is visiting Turkmenistan at the invitation of Turkmen minister of energy.

During the visit, the petroleum minister is going to have meetings with Turkmen's deputy prime minister and minister of energy Noor Mordov as well.

Iran and Turkmenistan are among the biggest holders of natural gas reserves in the world.

In January 2010, the presidents of Iran and Turkmenistan inaugurated the first phase of the second pipeline transferring Turkmenistan’s gas to Iran.

Iran sits atop the world’s second-largest natural gas reserves after Russia and has long sought to promote itself as a transit route for oil and gas from Central Asian.

Turkmenistan, Central Asia’s biggest gas producer, is seen as one of the key suppliers for the planned Nabucco pipeline from Turkey to Austria, designed to ease Europe’s dependence on Russia for gas supplies.

Cooperation with neighboring countries in the field of energy is among the priorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran's petroleum ministry.

Pakistan and Iran on Sunday finalized $7.5 billion gas project to start supply of natural gas from Iran to Pakistan as of 2014.