Tehran, Iran, May 26
By Kamyar Eghbalnejad - Trend:
A new sweetening plant at Iran’s South Pars gas field is expected to produce 50 million cubic meters of gas in coming months.
According to a report by ISNA on May 26, Phase 13 of the field has seen the establishment of the second sweetening train that enables the refinery to produce more than 50 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas per day by September 21.
The current production of the unit stands at 7 mcm, the report added.
Phase 13, one of the 24 South Pars phases whose development started in 2010, is also aimed at producing 80,000 barrels of gas condensate per day and 400 tons of sulfur as well as 1.1 million tons of liquefied petroleum gas and 1 million tons of ethane annually to provide petrochemical plants with feedstock.
South Pars is the world’s largest gas field, shared between Iran and Qatar, covering an area of 3,700 square kilometers of Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. It is estimated that the Iranian section of the field contains 14 trillion cubic meters of gas and 18 billion barrels of condensate in place.
Iranian gas refineries processed 214 billion cubic meters (bcm) of sweet gas during the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2018).