BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 26
By Elnur Baghishov - Trend
It is planned to increase the production by 60 million cubic meters per day at the second processing plant of South Pars Gas Complex of Bushehr province in southern Iran in the current year of Iran (starting from March 20, 2020), Director of the second gas processing plant of South Pars Gas Company (SPGC) Hossein Baghban said, Trend reports citing the company’s official website.
According to Baghban, investigations have been launched to increase production at the processing plant.
Baghban added that a project to separate mercaptan from gas condensates is being implemented at the refinery. A facility is under construction as part of this project. It will be commissioned this year.
The official said that the gas condensate production at the second processing plant was 100 percent last Iranian year (from March 21, 2019 to March 20, 2020). At the same time, sulfur production at the plant was 98 percent.
The gas extracted as part of the second and third phases of the Iran-Qatar joint South Pars gas field (this field is called North Dome in Qatar ) is transported to the second processing plant of the South Pars Gas Company. The plant processes 60.5 million cubic meters of gas per day.
The South Pars gas field is a joint gas field of Iran and Qatar. The proven reserves of the South Pars Gas Field have reached 51 trillion cubic meters of gas (36 trillion extractable). At present, Iran's daily gas production from the South Pars gas field is more than 700 million cubic meters. Iran has so far spent $33 billion on projects of the South Pars gas field.
Around 75 percent of Iran's gas is supplied by this field.
Gas from Iran's South Pars gas field is transported to refineries in the Pars Special Energy Economic Zone in the port city of Asaluyeh in Iran's southern Bushehr province via a gas pipeline.