60-Km Pipeline Will Link Qeshm to Nat’l Gas Grid

Pipe-laying operation has begun to connect the Persian Gulf’s largest Island (Qeshm) to the national gas grid, head of the state-run National Iranian Gas Company said.
“The 60-km pipeline, from Banda Abbas to Qeshm County in Hormozgan Province, will transfer 25 million cubic meters of natural gas to the island per day to be used as feedstock in the Qeshm Power Plant and petrochemical plants under construction,” Hassan Montazer-Torbati, was quoted as saying by ILNA.
The feedstock will be sufficient to feed four petrochemical plants that have registered a work-in-progress rate of 50%, he said, noting that upon completion the complexes will produce 6 million tons of value-added products per annum.
“Of the 60-km pipeline 20 km is now in place including 3,000 meters on the Persian Gulf bed laid with the horizontal directional drilling method.”