The Persian Gulf Bidboland Gas Treatment Plant project in southwestern Khuzestan Province has won the International Project Management Association (IPMA) Global Project Excellence Awards in the energy sector.
The plan, which was recently awarded as the country's top mega project by the 9th National Project Management Award, came in third among final nominees for the IPMA 2020 Large and Mega-Sized Projects Awards. Two international Chinese consortiums ranked first and second, the Oil Ministry news agency Shana reported.
According to the IPMA executive board and judges, the contractors, including the Iranian consortium of Sazeh and Jahanpars companies, has shown that the project management approach and results are world class and an example to other teams involved in international project management.
Sazeh is an EPC contractor and provides engineering, procurement and construction services to the oil, gas, refining, and petrochemical industries.
Jahanpars is a leading private contractor with more than half a century of successful experience in industrial development, especially oil, gas and petrochemicals. Both companies are based in Tehran and have at least 30 projects each in their track record.
IPMA is a federation of more than 70 member associations from Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East and North and South America.
Global Large- & Mega- Sized Project Excellence Awards recognizes teams that display and prove achievements in project and program management. Applicants compete within the large & mega-sized project category and are judged by a qualified international assessment panel based on application report and site visit. After the competition, applicants receive a feedback report from the assessors describing the strengths and areas for improvement on project excellence model criteria.
The largest gas refinery in West Asia and investment of $3.4 billion, the Persian Gulf Bidboland project will inaugurated soon.
Located in Behbahan County, Bidboland will have annual production capacity of 10.4 million tons of methane, 1.5 million tons of ethane, one million tons of propane, 600,000 tons of gas condensates, and 500,000 tons of butane when fully operational.
With completion of the project, production capacity of Iran’s sweet and other gases will increase and will be used to feed petrochemical plants in Mahshahr and supply urban needs in the region. Exports are also anticipated.
The refinery will supply feedstock through a 1,200-kilometer pipeline known as the West Ethylene Pipeline that runs from Asalouyeh in the south to West Azarbaijan Province in the northwest.
Equipped with facilities to separate ethane from methane, the refinery will help diversify petrochemical products, which is presently allocated to urea and ammonia production. Separation of the two units will help improve productivity and cut waste.
Bidboland gas treating facility is fed by the gas from the supergiant South Pars and Aghajari and Aghaz fields.
It is equipped with a modern vapor recovery unit that collects environmentally-hazardous vapors that are reprocessed or destroyed.
