Due to technical problems in the pipeline that transfers crude oil from Goureh Oil Terminal in Bushehr Province to Jask Port in Hormozgan Province, oil export from the National Iranian Oil Company’s Jask terminal off the Sea of Oman will be postponed, the oil minister said.
“The pilot phase of a project to transfer 300,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Goureh Oil Terminal to Jask Port has failed due to some technical hitches,” Javad Owji was also quoted as saying by the Oil Ministry’s news service.
Although 1,000 km of oil pipeline and pumping stations are in place and the project was supposed to officially come on stream soon, it will not become operational before March 2023, he added.
“Work on the $1.1 billion Goureh-Jask pipeline was started in June 2020 and completed in mid-2021.”
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