Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct.27
By Fatih Karimov - Trend:
Hook-up and commissioning stages of platforms B and C of Iran's South Pars gas field Phase 12, which is the biggest phase of the gas field, have been completed, Iran's Shana news agency reported on October 27.
Rasoul Fallahnejad, the phase 12 development project manager, said the platform B will come on stream by the next few days, while the C platform will come on stream by the end of the current Iranian calendar month of Azar (December 21).
Fallahnejad said once both platforms come on stream, the phase's output will rise to 65 million cubic meters of gas per day.
Iran is to boost the gas output in phase 12 to 65 mcmpd until March 2015 and after full completion of the phase 12, it's expected the output level to reach 82 mcmpd of gas.
The giant South Pars gas field which counts above 40 percent of the country's gas production is the world's biggest gas field with above 33 trillion cubic meters (cm) of reserves. It's a joint field between Iran and Qatar.
Until 2009, Iran inaugurated 10 of 28 phases of South Pars, producing about 290 million cubic meters per day (mcmpd) of gross natural gas, but the figure increased by 12 mcmpd in early 2014 by implementation of 12 phase, the field's biggest phase.
Phase 12 is the South Pars' biggest phase in terms of volume of activities as well as investment and production levels. When fully operational, Phase 12 will see some 75 million cubic meters of sweet gas pumped into the national gas network per annum.
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