Baku, Azerbaijan, Oct. 17
By Elnur Baghishov – Trend:
Two platforms belonging to phases 22-24 of South Pars gas field have been simultaneously sent to the Persian Gulf, said Ali Asghar Sadeghi, the project manager for the phases’ development, Trend reports referring to the National Iranian Oil Company’s website.
Sadeghi said that these are the main platform of Phase 23 and platform B of Phase 24 of the South Pars gas field.
The project manager added that the two platforms were sent a week before the scheduled time.
There are plans to extract 56 million cubic meters of sour gas, 75,000 tons of gas condensate, 400 tons of sulfur daily, 1.05 million tons of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and one million tons of ethane gas annually from the Phases 22-24 of the South Pars gas field.
The South Pars/North Dome field is the world’s biggest gas field shared by Iran and Qatar respectively in the Persian Gulf. It is estimated that the field has 51 trillion cubic meters of gas reserves, of which 36 trillion cubic meters of gas can be extracted.