BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept. 5
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
There is a 65-percent physical progress in the construction work of the Skid-Mounted desalination unit, which is being built to increase extraction from the Danan oil field in the Ilam Province (western Iran), an official of Iranian Central Oil Fields Company (ICOFC), Parviz Salehvand said, Trend reports citing the company’s website.
Salehvand noted that the unit was started to be built in 2020 in order to desalinate 10,000 barrels of crude oil per day and is scheduled to be launched by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2022).
The official added that with the construction and launch of this unit, the desalination process at the Danan oil field desalination unit will increase from 55,000 barrels daily to 65,000 barrels. This will create condition to increase extraction from the Danan oil field.
As reported, oil extraction from the Danan oil field, which discovered in 2007, began in 2014. At present, daily 9,000 barrels of oil are extracted from the field, and this extraction is estimated to be reached 19,000 barrels daily.
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