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MEOG PIPELINES & TRANSPORT MEOG

Iran completes

Goreh-Jask pipeline

IRAN IRANIAN Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said this Gulf port city of Goreh in Bushehr Province to
week that the first phase of the crude oil pipeline the Omidieh pumping station, then on to the
linking oilfields of West Karoun with Jask on Bahregan and Jask terminals for onward export.
the Sea of Oman has been completed ahead of Phase one of the 42-inch (1,067-mm), 1,000-
exports beginning next month. km pipeline will provide for the transportation
While the project is still to be inaugurated, of 460,000 bpd and 254,000 bpd of heavy and
Zanganeh was quoted by official Iranian media light Iranian crude respectively. Crude will be
as saying that “construction has finished” on the moved directly from the North Azadegan, South
conduit, adding that the first cargo of crude will Azadegan, Yadavaran and Darkhovin oilfields,
be exported from the new Jask Oil Terminal dur- while supply from North Yaran will be moved to
ing the Iranian month of Khordad, which runs a facility at Jofair before onward transportation
from May 22 until June 21. to the West Karoun station and beyond.
Touraj Dehghani, managing director of the Phase 2 is also underway, which will increase
Petroleum Engineering and Development Co. the capacity of the line to more than 1mn bpd.
(PEDEC), the subsidiary of National Iranian The wider project will include five pumping
Oil Co. (NIOC) that is overseeing the pipeline stations, two pigging stations and terminals and
project, said earlier in May: “Close to 1,000 km twenty 500,000-barrel tanks with a capacity of
of pipes are in place and the first phase of the pro- 10mn barrels of oil as well as offshore facilities
ject is scheduled to come on stream in May. It will for exporting crude oil.
transfer 300,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Iran has set out to reduce the vulnerability
Goreh oil terminal in Bushehr Province to Jask of its oil exports to disruption. Around 90% of
Port in Hormozgan Province.” exports are currently loaded at the Kharg Island
The pipeline will carry crude from the oil- terminal and must pass through the Straits of
fields in the West Karoun cluster, linking the Hormuz.™

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