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of the Kingdom’s ambitious generation, as gas condensate produced at Pars 2 region NIGC’s head of dispatching operations
this helped to a great deal in approving the was sent through a subsea pipeline to the said on Tuesday that the gas consumption
programme. SPM No. 1 of the South Pars Phase 12 to be figure was an increase of 8% on the same day
SPA loaded for exports, now this second SPM is in 2020.
also connected to the site by a 36-inch subsea Households were responsible for a bulk of
pipeline with a length of 6.8 km. usage at 521 mcm amid a fresh cold spell that
GAS According to Azimi, the new SPM will began earlier this week, said Mohammad Reza
increase the operational flexibility for gas Joulayi, adding that large manufacturers had
South Pars condensate condensate exports by making POGC able consumed 129 mcm and around 98 mcm of
natural gas had gone to the power plants.
to carry out periodic facility repairs on
loading capacity rises both SPM systems, and will also prevent nationwide pipeline network over this period
“The amount of gas injected to the
the deterioration of condensate measuring
Pars Oil and Gas Co. (POGC) has put a new and loading equipment by balancing the has been 811 mcm,” said Joulayi, adding that
single point mooring (SPM) into operation at operational loads between the two systems. the supply of gas to the network from two
phase 19 of South Pars gas field to increase the In late December 2020, Iran inaugurated strategic storage facilities in the country’s
condensate loading capacity of the giant field, its strategic gas condensate storage facilities northeast had reached a maximum amount.
an official with the company announced. in the South Pars region in a move to boost The official said that the NIGC had already
According to the Operator of South Pars the storage and exports of the mentioned started to impose curbs on supplies to large
phase 19 development project Seyed Hossein commodity. manufacturing units, including top producers
Azimi, a one-million-barrel cargo has been With a nominal capacity of 640,000 cubic of cement, petrochemicals, and steelmakers.
loaded from this SPM for the first time, the metres (4mn barrels), the mentioned storage It was not clear whether the curbs, which
POGC portal reported on Sunday. facilities and gas condensate measuring are meant to prevent cuts in households, have
“With the fourth single point mooring of stations have been constructed to store gas had any impact on prices of cement or steel in
South Pars going operational, in addition to condensate produced by South Pars refineries. the domestic market.
increasing the condensate loading capacity in The mentioned storages are able to supply However, Joulayi said consumption of
the export terminal of South Pars Site 2, the 480,000 barrels of gas condensate to the natural gas in Iran had already exceeded the
field’s operational flexibility will increase and Persian Gulf Star Refinery on a daily basis and normal capacities of output once exports
will lead to stable production of gas and gas also are able to send gas condensate to the of gas to Turkey and Iraq as well as usage at
condensate in South Pars Site 2 during the mentioned SPM systems via pipelines. pumping stations are included in calculations.
coming winter,” he said. TEHRAN TIMES Iran reached a historic milestone in gas
POGC, which is in charge of developing production last year at nearly 1 billion cubic
the South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, Iran’s daily gas use at meters per day. Around 80% of the output
had installed this SPM system at Site 2 of the comes from the South Pars gas field, the
field in January to facilitate gas condensate 748mcm world’s largest gas reserve which is located
exports from the region. in the Persian Gild and is shared with
The SPM, which is the second one at Site 2 Iran’s state-run gas company the NIGC has neighbouring Qatar.
of South Pars, has a loading capacity of 7,000 announced that daily gas usage in the country PRESS TV
cubic metres per hour of gas condensate. topped a record of 748 million cubic meters
Prior to the inauguration of this SPM, the per day over the 24 hours to Tuesday evening.

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