Natural gas transfer capacity has increased by 100 million cubic meters a day in the last two months, managing director of Iranian Gas Transmission Company said.
“The gas network has the capacity to supply 1 billion cubic meters of gas [per day] to households, industries and power plants. This is 11% higher compared to September when it was 900,000 mcm/d,” ILNA also quoted Mehdi Jamshidi-Dana as saying.
The company has added four new gas turbo compressors to Arsanjan County pressure boosting stations in Fars Province, due to which more gas can be transmitted through the ninth and fourth Iran Gas Trunkline (IGAT-9 and IGAT-4), he added.
IGAT is a series of nine large diameter pipelines built to supply gas from refineries in southern Iran (Khuzestan and Bushehr provinces).
Stretching over 1,145 kilometers, IGAT-4, with a capacity of 110 mcm/d, transfers gas produced in South Pars to Fars and Isfahan provinces.
IGAT-9 is a 1,900-kilometer prospective pipeline that stretches from the southern city of Asalouyeh in Bushehr through Ahvaz, Dehgolan and eventually the Bazargan district and border crossing in West Azarbaijan Province in the northwest.
According to the official, IGTC, a subsidiary of National Iranian Gas Company, has divided the country into 10 districts.
Jamshidi-Dana noted that gas production capacity has reached 1 bcm/d, of which 750 mcm/d come from South Pars Gas Field in the Persian Gulf and the rest (250 mcm/d) is produced by the Iranian Central Oil Fields Company that has three subsidiaries, namely West Oil and Gas Production Company, East Oil and Gas Production Company and South Zagros Oil and Gas Production Company.
Located in the Persian Gulf straddling the maritime borders between Iran and Qatar, South Pars covers 9,700 square kilometers, of which 3,700 square kilometers belong to Iran.
The Iranian side of the field contains an estimated 14 trillion cubic meters of gas and 18 billion barrels of condensates.
Iran is developing the mega gas project in 24 phases, 23 of which are complete. Development of Phase 11 is underway.
