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South Pars phases 20&21 refining capacity increases

Business Materials 25 December 2016 14:41 (UTC +04:00)

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 25

By Fatih Karimov – Trend:

The daily production at phases 20 and 21 of Iran’s South Pars gas field has increased as the new sweetening row of the phases’ refinery came into stream, Alireza Ebadi, the operator of South Pars phases 20 and 21 development project, said.

The second sweetening row of the phase has started injecting sweet gas into the cross-country gas grid, he said, SHANA news agency reported Dec. 25.

The gas output capacity of South Pars phases 20 and 21 will gradually increase to 28.5 million cubic meters per day as the second row came into force.

The remaining two rows out of four sweetening rows in the refinery of phases 20 and 21 will become operational by March 2017.

The sweet gas from the phase 20 refinery was injected into the cross-country gas grid on Dec. 17 for the first time.

Phases 20 and 21 of the South Pars field are set to produce 50 mcmd of gas, 77,000 b/d of gas condensate, 400 tons of sulfur a day, 1.1 million tons of liquefied petroleum gas a year and one million tons of ethane a year, he added.

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.

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