BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 9
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
The overhaul of the 5th refinery of the Iran’s South Pars Gas Company (SPGC) began on July 30 and will continue until August 20, Head of the Exploitation Unit at the Fifth Refinery of South Pars Gas Company Mostafa Jahankhah said, Trend reports citing the SPGC’s official website.
Jahankhah said that the repairs are carried out in order to eliminate production restrictions, periodic inspection of equipment to ensure sustainable production.
He added that the repairs include repair of taps of expander for ethane production, cleaning Cold Box conveyors, replacement of 20-inch gas lines, making changes to the section on the sweetening of propane gas.
The official stressed that in total, 822 repair works will be carried out at the plant and gas refining of 9th and 10th phases will continue.
The South Pars Gas Company's 5th refinery processes gas and gas condensate transported from 9th and 10th phases of the South Pars gas field. The refinery processes 56 million cubic meters of fresh gas, 80,000 barrels of gas condensate, 2,600 tons of ethane, 2,180 tons of propane, 1,250 tons of butane and 240 tons of sulfur 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 are estimated at 51 trillion cubic meters of gas, of which 36 trillion are 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.