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GAS the past decade. Demand for gas heating was day of natural gas and some 15,000 barrels of
driven to record highs. gas condensates from the field once it is fully
Thousands of Iranians left BNE developed.
The exploration of the field comes amid
without gas in cold snap POGC hits gas at Belal Iran’s plans to further increase its natural gas
output to respond to a growing demand for
A decision by Turkmenistan to halt gas An Iranian oil and gas company energy in the country.
exports to northern Iran in order to meet its commissioned for development of the Belal Latest figures by the Iranian Oil Ministry
domestic demand amid extreme sub-zero gas field in the Persian Gulf says it has finally show natural gas output in the country has
temperatures left tens of thousands of Iranians reached gas from its exploration well in the reached some 990 million cubic meters
without the gas needed to heat their homes field which is located on the maritime border per day from a total production capacity of
at the weekend, according to Iran’s petroleum between Iran and Qatar. around 1.045 billion cubic meters.
ministry. CEO of Pars Oil and Gas Company POGC’s Motajalli said the company will
Iran’s oil minister, Javad Owji, said supply (POGC) Mohammad Hossein Motajalli soon award contracts for drilling work on
shortages to the north—which is relatively said on Monday that gas from a first layered eight development wells in Belal gas field.
poorly served by Iran’s gas distribution reservoir of Belal had reached the surface He said a 150-kilometer pipeline and
network, meaning it relies on Turkmen gas during a drilling operation a day earlier. other installations will be constructed to
to fulfil demand—were exacerbated by the “The gas torch on the well is now burning,” transfer sour gas produced in the field to
Turkmen decision. said Motajalli, adding that exploration drilling onshore refineries, adding that a contract for
Gas deliveries were cut to at least 90,000 in the field had started in early June. construction of large jacket platform had
residential users in the northeastern Razavi The POGC won a contract to develop Belal been awarded to Iranian company SADRA.
Khorasan province by the night of January 14, gas field in 2019 amid efforts by Iran to rely Belal is located some 30 kilometers to the
local officials told state TV. more on domestic companies for large-scale southeast of South Pars, the world’s largest gas
Supplies were also disrupted in at least four projects in its petroleum sector after foreign field which is shared between Iran and Qatar
other northern provinces and several districts, firms withdrew from the country under in the Persian Gulf.
according to reports by the state broadcaster. pressure from the United States. PRESS TV
Officials say most of the country has been The company aims to produce 500 million
hit by freezing temperatures unprecedented in cubic feet (over 14 million cubic meters) per

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