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but repeatedly delayed, Al-Zour will be the become ready to transmit gas from these for operation,” Motamed said.
largest integrated refinery and petrochemicals platforms to the refinery on the coast. Phase 13 of South Pars gas field is aimed
plant in Kuwait. As reported by the portal of Pars Oil and at the production of 56 mcm of gas, 75,000
Al-Zour’s production capacity is estimated Gas Company (POGC), which is in charge of barrels of gas condensate, and 400 tons of
at 615,000 barrels per day, increasing Kuwait’s developing the giant field in the Persian Gulf, sulfur per day in addition to one million tons
overall refining capacity to over 1.5 million the two 32-inch pipelines are each 100 km of ethane and one million tons of propane and
barrels a day. long and will transfer gas from the mentioned butane per annum.
KIPIC, a subsidiary of the Kuwait platforms to be processed at the phase 13 South Pars is divided into 24 standard
Petroleum Corporation, appointed a unit of refinery. phases of development in the first stage. Most
U.S. multinational Honeywell International According to Phase 13 Operator Payam of the phases are fully operational at the
last year to provide technology and Moatamed, the mentioned platforms were moment.
production systems for Al-Zour. installed back in February and the project The huge offshore field, shared with
KIPIC was set up to manage refinery, for connecting them to the pipelines was Qatar, covers an area of 9,700 square km,
petrochemicals and LNG import operations at immediately started. 3,700 square km of which, called South Pars,
the Al-Zour complex south of Kuwait City. Moatamed also noted that the pipelines of are in Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian
REUTERS the 13B and 13D, the other two platforms of Gulf. The remaining 6,000 square km, called
the phase, were inaugurated back in February North Dome, are situated in Qatar’s territorial
2019. waters.
GAS All stages of the project including pipe The field is estimated to contain a
coating, installation engineering, seawater significant amount of natural gas, accounting
SP phase 13 transmission piping, and commissioning of these lines have for about eight percent of the world’s reserves,
been done by Iranian experts and engineers,
and approximately 18 billion barrels of
pipelines ready to go according to the official. condensate.
“Considering the need for group work of
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operational the operations, we managed to complete the
project by observing the social distance in
The gas transmission pipelines of South such a way that while maintaining the health
Pars gas field’s 13A and 13C platforms have of the workforce, the pipelines became ready

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