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Iran’s South Pars Platform 19A becomes operational

Business Materials 11 October 2016 18:01 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 11

By Fatih Karimov – Trend:

Iran’s South Pars Platform 19 A has come on stream, Hamid Reza Masoudi, operator of the phase said, SHANA news agency reported Oct. 11.

Through the platform, a daily gas supply of 14 million cubic meters will go into the cross-country distribution network, Masoudi added.

The third gas sweetening train of the refinery of phase 19 is ready to receive the gas from platform 19A, he said, adding that the gas output from the Phase 19 stands at 25 million cubic meters per day at the moment.

The platform 19 A was successfully installed at its designated offshore spot on July 16.

Phase 19 development of South Pars is set to produce 56 million cubic meters per day (mcm/d) of gas, 80,000 b/d of gas condensate, 400 tons a day of sulfur, 1.05 million tons a year of liquefied petroleum gas and one million tons a year of ethane.

According to statistics, each standard phase of the gas field will produce around 8 billion cubic meters of gas per year, valued at $2 billion.

South Pars, located in southern region, is divided into 24 development phases, and contains 40 trillion cubic meters of natural gas.

It covers an area of 9,700 square kilometers, 3,700 square kilometers of which are in Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The remaining 6,000 square kilometers are in Qatar's territorial waters.

The Islamic Republic is producing over 430 mcm/d of gas from South Pars, while the production level is projected to surpass 700 mcm/d by late 2018.

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