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MEOG PIPELINES & TRANSPORT MEOG

Second pipeline completed

at Iran’s Jask terminal

IRAN IRAN’S Pars Oil and Gas Co. (POGC) the West Karoun station.
announced last week that it has completed the According to Ali Jafarzadeh, Petroleum Engi-
construction of the second of two 36-inch (914- neering and Development Co’s (PEDEC) deputy
mm) pipelines at the Jask Oil Terminal Project in director for the project, the first phase also sur-
southern Hormozgan Province. passed 70% completion.
The two pipelines will feed the first sin- Phase 2 is also underway, which will increase
gle-point mooring (SPM), which is an integral the capacity of the line to more than 1mn bpd.
element in phase one. Work began on the second These projects form part of a broader move
pipeline in late January upon completion of the by the Islamic Republic to increase its capabili-
installation of the first. After completion of the ties to export oil from facilities outside the Strait
two 6-km pipelines “it will be possible to install of Hormuz, which has proved to be a flashpoint
the project’s first SPM system, which is currently whenever tensions with neighbouring countries
loaded in the Khorramshahr industrial yard”, and/or the US flare up. The objective is to turn
according to Vahid Maleki. Jask into “Iran’s key hub of oil exports,” according
The construction of the SPM unit was fin- to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. At present,
ished a week earlier and has a capacity of 1mn the Kharg Island terminal in the Gulf accounts
barrels per day (bpd). It will now be shipped to for 90% of the country’s oil exports.
Jask. The terminal is being developed by Pars Oil The Jask port will also feature 20 tanks
and Gas Co. (POGC) at a cost of around $315mn, with a total storage capacity of 10mn barrels
with the early phase now 82% complete. of crude, with plans in place to expand export
Jask is part of a wider project to transport infrastructure.
oil from the prolific West Karoun cluster in the
south-west of the country and export it from ter- Pipeline progress
minals along the southern Gulf coast. Meanwhile, Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh
The first phase of a pipeline running from attended a ceremony this week to launch three
West Karoun to the Omidieh pumping station, oil product pipelines with a combined capacity
then on to the Bahregan and Jask terminals for of more than 500,000 bpd.
onward export, is expected to be completed The Shazand-Qom-Rey conduit will run
around the end of the current Iranian calendar 293 km, transporting 300,000 bpd of products
year, which ends in March. through a 26-inch (660 mm) pipe. The 20-inch
Phase one of the 1,000-km Goreh-Jask (508 mm) diameter Naein-Kashan-Rey pipeline
pipeline will provide for the transportation of will carry 204,000 bpd 420 km, while the 14-inch
460,000 bpd and 254,000 bpd of heavy and light (356 mm) Tabriz-Khoy-Urmia unit will carry
Iranian crude respectively. Crude will be moved 65,000 bpd of products a total length of 220 km.
directly from the North Azadegan, South Aza- The ceremony was also attended by Alireza
degan, Yadavaran and Darkhovin oilfields, while Sadeq-Abadi, managing director of the National
supply from North Yaran will be moved to a Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Co.
facility at Jofair before onward transportation to (NIORDC).™

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