$3.4b Gas Refinery Opens in Khuzestan

The $3.4 billion Persian Gulf Bidboland gas refinery was inaugurated Thursday in Khuzestan Province to trap associated gas from crude oil production instead of flaring, the managing director said.
"Nearly 60% of flared gas in the three provinces of Khuzestan, Kohgiluyeh-Boyerahmad and Bushehr, will be collected by Bidboland and converted into value-added goods instead of being wasted," Mahmoud Amin-Nejad was quoted as saying by ILNA.
Based in the southwest part of Iran, the plant has a daily capacity to process 56 million cubic meters of associated gas from East and West Karoun oil fields that include several large oilfields straddling the Iran-Iraq border namely Azadegan, Yaran, Yadavaran and Darkhoein.