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Jask Oil Terminal ready for action

IRAN FOLLOWING last week’s completion of phase last week, following the announcement by the
one of the Goreh-Jask oil pipeline, Iran’s new oil country’s oil minister that the conduit had been
terminal on the Sea of Oman is now 98% com- completed.
plete and is ready to begin receiving, transferring The pipeline will carry crude from the oil-
and exporting crude. fields in the West Karoun cluster, linking the
Speaking to press during a visit to the facil- Gulf port city of Goreh in Bushehr province to
ity, Mohammad Meshkinfam, CEO of Pars Oil the Omidieh pumping station, then on to the
and Gas Co. (POGC), the state firm developing Bahregan and Jask terminals for onward export.
the project, said that the single-point mooring Phase one of the 42-inch (1,067mm) 1,000-
(SPM) is operational. km pipeline will provide for the transportation
The unit has a design throughput capacity of of 460,000 bpd and 254,000 bpd of heavy and
1mn bpd and was installed 6km offshore Jask light Iranian crude, respectively. Crude will be
for loading tankers with two 36-inch (914mm) moved directly from the North Azadegan, South
pipelines laid during February linking it to the Azadegan, Yadavaran, and Darkhovin oilfields,
shore. while supply from North Yaran will be moved to
Jask port will also feature an initial 20 stor- a facility at Jofair before onward transportation
age tanks with a total storage capacity of 10mn to the West Karoun station and beyond.
barrels of crude, with plans in place to expand Phase 2 is also underway, which will increase
export the infrastructure and storage capacity to the capacity of the line to more than 1mn bpd.
30mn barrels. It is being developed on an area of The wider project will include five pumping
0.6 square km at a cost of around $305-315mn. stations, two pigging stations and terminals.
Meshkinfam alluded to the strategic location Karbasian noted that crude began flowing to
of the terminal, saying: “Iran has achieved a spe- Jask on May 19 and will fill the facility’s crude
cial position outside the Persian Gulf and can storage units, adding that the transportation of
now export oil from the Oman Sea for the first crude from Goreh to Jask was a national plan and
time with the aim of reducing dependence on the “the largest project in the oil industry”.
Strait of Hormuz and making it easier for foreign He said the inaugural volumes would take
customers to access its oil shipments.” “less than a month” to reach Jask, at which point,
Around 90% of exports are currently loaded a new national plan will be inaugurated in a cer-
at the Kharg Island terminal and must pass emony attended by President Hassan Rouhani.
through the Straits of Hormuz and the same goes With that in mind, Meshkinfam said:
for imports. “According to the plans, from now on we are
Meanwhile, National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) ready for receiving, transporting and loading
CEO Mehdi Karbasian said that oil had begun crude oil by export tankers from the coast of
flowing through the $1.1bn Goreh-Jask line Makran.”™

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