BAKU, Azerbaijan, Jan. 7
By Elnur Baghishov - Trend:
The third platform of phases 22, 23 and 24 of Iran’s South Pars gas field (North Dome in Qatar), which is Iran’s joint gas field with Qatar, was commissioned Jan. 5, Deputy Director of the development project of phases 22, 23 and 24 of South Pars Gas Field Ali Asghar Sadeghi said, Trend reports referring to the Pars Oil and Gas Company’s website.
Sadeghi noted that gas started to be sent from phase 23 to an onshore gas processing plant.
The deputy director added that gas production from the platform at phase 23 is 14.1 million cubic meters per day (500 million cubic feet).
Commenting on the gas production increase to 28 million cubic meters per day last Iranian year (from March 21, 2018 to March 21, 2019) as a result of the commissioning of two platforms of these phases, Sadeghi said that gas production has already increased to 42 million cubic meters per day at these phases.
“As many as 14 million cubic meters of sweet gas, 20,000 barrels of gas condensate, 100 tons of sulfur, 250,000 tons of liquefied gas and 250,000 tons of ethane per day can be extracted from each of these platforms,” the deputy director noted.
There are two main and two auxiliary platforms of the 14th phase of the South Pars Gas Field. It is possible to produce 500 million cubic meters of gas from each of these platforms. The platforms 14A (since early May 2019) and 14C (since late May 2019) of this phase each produce 14.2 million cubic meters of gas daily.
The proven reserves of the South Pars Gas Field have reached 51 trillion cubic meters of gas (36 trillion extractable).
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.