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Iran makes gas preparations
for winter months
IRAN IRAN this week said that work has been com- consumption is supplied from Bushehr Province
pleted across its gas refinery network to prepare and the South Pars refineries.”
it for increased demand during winter months Owji added that the SP14 refinery is the final
while an additional unit is set to come into downstream facility under the South Pars devel-
operation. opment project.
Speaking to the official energy sector media In May, Pars Oil and Gas Co. (POGC)
agency Shana, Masoud Zardovian, head of the announced that the first train at SP14 would
National Iranian Gas Co.’s (NIGC) production be completed and ready for commissioning on
coordination and supervision directorate said schedule in early July.
that with its overhaul programme for the 18 The company’s managing director Moham-
operational gas refineries now 65% complete, mad Meskinfam said it would be “will be handed
“we can get through the winter smoothly”. over to the commissioning group in early July
“By implementing this programme, which this year, and then the commissioning activities
aims to maintain the system in an efficient condi- will continue to prepare the different units of this
tion, the reliability of the refineries will increase, train for operation”.
and in this way, we can maximise the amount of “Fortunately, with the follow-ups done, the
processing and ensure that clean, safe, and effi- ancillary units of Phase 14 of South Pars are now
cient gas is supplied to various sectors,” he added. ready for commissioning, and in the process
The programme began in March and will section, the reception facilities will be ready to
conclude in late October and covers the 12 oper- receive gas by late May,” he added.
ational refineries in the South Pars onshore gas South Pars is split into 24 offshore develop-
complex at Assaluyeh and six other units. ment phases and 14 onshore gas refineries which
Of these, overhaul work has been carried out process the gas produced offshore. POGC, a sub-
at 10 facilities with work already underway at sidiary of the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC)
another five. holds ultimate responsibility for the projects,
Zardovian noted that NIGC’s overhaul pro- with fellow NIOC subsidiary Petropars carry-
gramme has been improving thanks to the use ing out jobs on the surface and subsurface. The
of new equipment for preparations, risk assess- only phases still to be completed are the Phase
ments and inspections, meaning that the com- 14 refinery and the offshore Phase 11 for which
pany can “allocate the least possible time to such Total previously held a contract with NIOC.
operations in order to be able to have the maxi- Iran is home to around 34 trillion cubic
mum amount of production”. metres of proved natural gas reserves, with South
Meanwhile, during his first visit to Assaluyeh Pars accounting for around 14tcm as well as 18bn
since becoming Minister of Petroleum, Javad barrels of gas condensates. The Islamic republic
Owji said that the first gas sweetening train of holds a 3,700 square km portion of the 9,700
the South Pars 14 (SP14) refinery will come square km deposit that is shared with Qatar,
on-stream this winter. where it is known as the North Dome field.
He said: “More than 700mn cubic metres [per Around 80% of the field’s initial gas reserves are
day] or in other words 70% of the country’s gas believed to remain in place.
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