BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec. 3
By Elnur Baghishov - Trend:
Gas processing plants of Iran’s South Pars gas field (North Dome in Qatar), a joint field between Iran and Qatar, will connect to each other, said Mohammad Bayatian, the head of projects under development at Iran’s Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC), Trend reports referring to the National Iranian Oil Company’s website.
Bayatian noted that a 32-inch pipeline with length of 2.8 kilometers and with capacity of transporting 25 million cubic meters of sour gas per day will be laid in the first zone of the South Pars field.
Besides, a 42-inch pipeline with length of 12.5 kilometers and potential to transport 50 million cubic meters of sour gas daily will be laid in the second zone of the field, the head of projects said.
“This project will ensure uninterrupted gas processing in the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone (PSEEZ) and will have a special role in reducing air pollution within a year,” Bayatian added.
A total of 45 kilometers of pipelines will be laid as part of this project, the company official said.
“A similar project was launched last Iranian year (March 21, 2018 - March 21, 2019), which included laying pipelines among processing plants of phases 6, 8, 4 and 5,” Bayatian noted.
The proven reserves of the South Pars field have reached 51 trillion cubic meters of gas and it is possible to extract 36 trillion cubic meters of gas.
Presently, 630 million cubic meters of gas may be extracted from Iran's South Pars gas field daily.
After new platforms are commissioned at five phases (13, 14, 22, 23 and 24), gas production volume will increase up to 680 million cubic meters a day.