BAKU, Azerbaijan, Nov. 8
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
About 10.7 billion cubic meters of gas has been processed at the 8th refinery of Iran’s South Pars Gas Company (SPGC) since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2020), the Director of 8th Refinery Kambiz Sefati said, Trend reports citing the SPGC’s website.
Sefati noted that so far, the workers and specialists of the refinery worked 77,700 hours in total to process this volume of gas.
The director added that the work is underway to set a new record for gas processing at the refinery in the current year (from March 20, 2020, to March 21, 2021).
The 8th refinery of the South Pars Gas Company processes gas and gas condensate transported from the 20th and 21st phases of the South Pars gas field. The refinery can produce daily 50 million cubic meters of sweet gas, 75,000 barrels of gas condensate, 400 tons of sulfur, and annually 1.05 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LPG) and 1 million tons of ethane.
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. 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.