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Iran to export propane consignment to Kenya

Business Materials 30 August 2014 11:38 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug.30

By Fatih Karimov - Trend:

Iran will export 106,000 barrels of propane, produced at its Siri natural gas liquids (NGL) production plant, to Kenya next week.

Reza Haqiqi, director of Siri Oilfields Development Headquarters, said the Siri NGL plant, which is located in the Persian Gulf, went on stream in February 2013. It collects around 100 million cubic feet (mcf) of dry gas per day, thus preventing associated petroleum gas from being flared.

The NGL plant also produces 1,500 barrels per day (bpd) of pentane, 4,000 bpd of butane, 1,400 bpd of gas condensate, and 8,000 bpd of propane.

The NGL plant produces butane, propane, pentane, and naphtha, he said, adding that 280,000 barrels of naphtha and 106,000 barrels of butane, totally worth $22.2 million, have so far been exported.

Normal butane are mainly used for gasoline blending, as a fuel gas, either alone or in a mixture with propane, and as a feedstock for the manufacture of ethylene and butadiene, a key ingredient of synthetic rubber. Isobutane is primarily used by refineries to enhance (increase) the octane number of motor gasoline

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