The Goureh-Jask crude oil pipe-laying operation has been completed and welding is in the final stages, managing director of the Petroleum Engineering and Development Co., a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company, said.
“Close to 1,000 km of pipes are in place and first phase of the project is scheduled to come on stream by May. It will transfer 300,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Goureh oil terminal in Bushehr Province to Jask Port in Hormozgan Province,” Mehr News Agency quoted Touraj Dehghani as saying.
The pipes were made by three Iranian companies, he said, and added that Ahvaz Industrial Pipe Company, the Isfahan-based Mobarakeh Steel Company and Khuzestan Oxin Steel Company were involved.
Raw material for producing the pipes was supplied by Mobarakeh company and made into special steel sheets in Oxin company. The pipes were manufactured in Ahvaz.
Referring to pumps, Dehghani said the large BB3 multistage centrifugal pumps used in the project were indigenized by domestic manufactures, namely Iran Industrial Pumps Company and Heavy Duty Pumps and Water Turbine Manufacture Company (Petco).
“To supply power to the pumps, 200 km of transmission and distribution lines are being built and 11 substations have to be built, five of which will go on stream soon.”
The venture also includes construction of 20 oil storage facilities (three are operational), five pumping stations (two are ready) and an oil export terminal that is under construction.
"So far $400 million has been invested in the project, and another $850 million is needed.”
Kharg Terminal in the Persian Gulf has been Iran’s main oil export terminal for decades. Jask will be another major site with the advantage that oil tankers will not have to pass through the narrow and permanently clogged Strait of Hormuz.
