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Iran launches South Pars 14 refinery
MIDDLE EAST IRAN has commissioned the final refinery a combined 1mn tonne per year (tpy) of LPG
under its project to develop the supergiant and ethane.
South Pars gas field. The LPG and ethane are used as feedstock
Deputy Oil Minister and National Iranian by petrochemicals producers in the Pars Special
Oil Co. (NIOC) CEO Mohsen Khojasteh-Mehr Economic Zone (PSEZ).
told local media this week that the South Pars The refinery’s launch means that the only
Phase 14 refinery was launched on March 14, remaining section of the South Pars devel-
having received raw sour gas from the offshore opment is the upstream Phase 11, which is
field. South Pars is split into 24 offshore devel- expected to be launched by the second quarter
opment phases and 14 onshore gas refineries of the next Iranian calendar year, which will end
which process the gas produced offshore. on September 22.
Khojasteh-Mehr said that the first phase of Khojasteh-Mehr noted that gas output from
the refinery has begun at a processing capacity of the upstream phases of South Pars reached an
14.2mn cubic metres per day of gas and around all-time record of 705 mcm per day in January.
10,000 barrels per day (bpd) of condensates. Last year, NIOC’s deputy director for pro-
It will gradually ramp up to more than 56 duction affairs, Farrokh Alikhani, said: “Due
mcm per day once the remaining three refin- to rising gas consumption in the country and
ing units are commissioned over the next 12 in order to prevent gas shortage in winter, the
months. launch of Phase 14 refinery is very important.”
The upstream phase 14 has a production It features six water boilers that each produce
capacity of 56 mcm per day of gas, 75,000 bpd of around 27 tonnes per hour of steam which were
condensate, 400 tonnes per day of sulphur and built by the local MAPNA Group.
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