Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug.7/ Trend F.Milad/
Iran will inaugurate its first gas storage facility in the near future, according to the Shana News Agency.
The National Iranian Gas Company's (NIGC) managing director said the facility would be located at the Sarajeh reservoir at Qom. "The injection of gas at a rate of 4.5 million cubic meters per day will begin in the second half of the year and the injection will
gradually go up to 9.5 MMcmd," The NIGC head Javad Oji said.
Massoud Samivand, the managing director of Natural Gas Storage Company, said on April 27 that two natural gas storage facilities will become operational in the current Iranian calendar year (started March 20, 2012) to store natural gas equal to six phases of the South Pars gas field.
The official added that depleted hydrocarbon or ground water reservoirs as well as salt domes are priorities for building underground gas storage facilities.
He stated that the country's natural gas storage capacity should hit 14 billion cubic meters by the end of the Fifth Economic Development Plan (2015).
Samivand announced that the construction of three underground gas storage facilities is simultaneously going on in Sarajeh region of Qom Province, Yortsha region near the city of Varamin, and Shourijeh region in Khorasan Province.
He said the three new stores will be able to contain 8 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year.
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