Pars Oil and Gas Company has completed installing offshore platform 14C in the giant South Pars Gas Field in the Persian Gulf where sour gas extraction started on Saturday.
According to Hamidreza Masoudi, director of the phase, the satellite platform extracts 14.1 million cubic meters of natural gas per day, the news portal of National Iranian Oil Company reported.
The platform was built at the Iran Marine Industrial Company (Sadra) yard in Bushehr and transported to the offshore location on the 124 FLB carrier in early September.
With the new gas infrastructure now operational, the phase’s production capacity has reached 28.2 mcm per day – or the SP standard output rate.
Noting that platform 14C is now connected to platform 14A (main platform of the phase), Masoudi said, “the sour gas extracted from platform 14C will be transferred to platform 14A and from there to refineries in Pars 2 region in the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone near Kangan county in Bushehr. After refining, the gas will be injected into the national gas network”.
Iran Shipbuilding and Offshore Industries Company, a subsidiary of the Industrial Development & Renovation Organization of Iran, is building the main platform 14B and satellite platform 14D in its shipyard. Upon completion, Phase 14 will produce 56 million cubic meters of gas and 75,000 barrels of gas condensates , a type of ultra light crude, a year and supply feedstock to petrochemical plants in the PSEEZ.
The South Pars mega gas project is being developed in 24 phases. Except for Phase 11 that has not been developed yet, other phases such as 13, 22, 23 and 24, will become operational by the end of 2019.
