Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept. 15
By Khalid Kazimov -- Trend:
Platforms 15 and 16 of the Iranian South Pars are ready to work in full capacity, sending 50 million cubic meters of gas per day from the sea.
The platforms are 98 percent through, but the remaining 2 percent is only about the processes of handing them over, meaning the physical part of the job is 100 percent over, director of the onshore part of Phases 15 and 16 Arash Kuheli said, IRNA news agency reported Sept. 15.
The projects include two onshore platforms and two sea pipelines, each 32 inches in diameter, one for carrying sour gas and the other for carrying glycol, he said.
The platforms are 110 kilometers from shore and each one of them is able to produce one billion cubic feet of sour gas per day, he stated.
Besides sweetening the gas, the production of ethane, condensates, and sulfur are also the tasks defined for phases 15 and 16, Kuheli said.
Among many other gas fields, the South Pars is the most prominent in Iran. Iran's part of the South Pars, the world's largest gas reserve, holds 13.3 trillion cubic meters of gas in place.
With full implementation of South Pars by 2018 or 2019 Iran's refined gas production capacity will increase by 110 bcm/a to 365 bcm/a.
Iran is producing about 700 million cubic meters of gas per day and the country's annual gas production growth is expected to stand at 100 mcm/d in the next three years.
Edited by CN