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Iran carries out more work at South Pars

IRAN IRAN’S Pars Oil and Gas Co. (POGC) this firms, with these companies expected to take the
week completed its annual overhaul at the SPD8 lead on the country’s development projects fol-
offshore platform for the development of the lowing the collapse of negotiations with IOCs to
South Pars gas field. The news follows the recent build out production capacity.
announcement that fellow local firm Petropars In late August, Petropars reported that two
was expected to begin drilling the first well at locally manufactured, 2,200-tonne platform
the field’s Phase 11 development by the end of jackets had been installed at SP11, enabling
autumn, with the country’s oil minister saying 12 wells to be drilled. Meanwhile last week,
that gas would “be transferred to onshore facili- Petroleum Engineering and Development Co.
ties within a year”. (PEDEC) announced that it had increased oil
In a statement to the official Shana energy production capacity at the South Yaran oilfield
media outlet, POGC’s director of production by 5,000 bpd following the installation of a new
and operations, Alireza Ebadi, said: “With the locally produced mobile oil separator (MOS),
completion of overhaul operations and the the first time an Iranian manufactured unit had
replacement of the three main gas pipelines, pro- been deployed in the West Karoun oil region.
duction on this platform has resumed.”
He added that the work had taken 25 days to Qeshm exports
complete. Meanwhile, as Iran attempts to ramp up its pro-
The SPD8 platform is dedicated to South Pars duction and export capacities, President Hassan
Phases 6 to 8, the output from which is dedicated Rouhani has inaugurated the first phase of the
to reinjection into onshore oilfields to maintain Direstan oil terminal on Qeshm Island.
production levels. Output from the three phases Once it comes into operation, the full facil-
amounts to around 60,000 barrels per day of ity will have a liquids storage capacity of nearly
condensate and a further 30,000-35,000 bpd of 6.5mn barrels, taking the Islamic Republic’s total
LPG. Around two thirds of production is under- storage capacity to around 103mn barrels.
stood to be reinjected at the onshore Aghajari Phase one will contribute 3.24mn barrels
field, where output is around 90,000-110,000 from six tanks. Construction on the $178mn
bpd. project began in December last year and has
According to Ebadi, the scope of the over- been carried out by local contractors in the pri-
haul included the calibration of 50 safety valves, vate sector.
inspection of seven tanks, eliminating leakage The second phase will double capacity
from defective valves, replacement of three through the addition of another seven tanks and
platform gas pipelines, performing welding and is expected to be completed during Q1 2021.
fit-up operations at over 90 welding points, and The new terminal will be connected to the
performing radiographic and other tests on the Gevarzin gas processing plant via a 22-km pipe-
welded areas. line, which will allow for the direct transfer of
Iran has been keen to talk up the capabilities oil and refined products between Qeshm and the
of its domestic oil and gas operators and services Bandar Abbas and Persian Gulf Star refineries.™

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