The second gas sweetening train of the South Pars Gas Field's Phase 13 in Persian Gulf will go on stream in April, less than a month of implementing its first train, the director of Phase 13 development project said.
"The phase's development has registered a work-in-progress rate of 89%, with the onshore project being 92% complete," Payam Motamed was also quoted as saying by Shana.
The official added that offshore platforms are 85% complete, offshore pipe-laying has registered a 78% progress and drilling has advanced by 86%.
The refining unit will receive sour gas from phases 6, 7 and 8 as part of Iran’s production plan from the world’s largest gas field that is shared with Qatar.
Phase 13 projects consist of offshore infrastructure, including 38 wells, four platforms and four pipelines stretching about 90 kilometers off the Persian Gulf coast, as well as onshore facilities, including four gas refining units each with a daily processing capacity of 14 million cubic meters.
According to Motamed, the first train became operational in late March and added 7 million cubic meters of the strategic fuel into the national gas grid.
Once completed, the phase is slated to produce 56 million cubic meters of natural gas per day. It is planned to extract 2,900 tons of liquefied petroleum gas, 2,750 tons of ethane, 75,000 barrels of ultra light crude, also known as condensate, and 400 tons of sulfur per day from the offshore project.
A consortium of local firms, namely Iran Marine Industrial Company or SADRA, energy conglomerate MAPNA and Petro Paydar Iranian Company, is developing Phase 13.
Phase 13 is in line with Iran’s plans to raise natural gas output to 1.1 billion cubic meters per day by 2021.
--- Flare Tripod Installed
The first tripod for the flare stacks of South Pars Phase 24 was installed in the offshore position of the platform on March 25, Farhad Izadjou, the director of phases 22-24, said.
The 24A tripod has registered a record of installation in only eight days, Shana reported.
The official said the 1,060-ton tripod was dispatched by Iranian Marine Industrial Company's carrier CPad on March 13.
He noted that the installation of the next tripod, 24B, is also on the agenda and will be completed by the end of April.
"The operation of the two offshore structures will be an important move in the completion of phases 22-24, which are in a good stage of development," he said.
Earlier reports revealed a 90% progress rate in phases 22, 23 and 24.
South Pars is the world’s largest gas field, shared between Iran and Qatar, covering an area of 3,700 square kilometers of Iran’s territorial waters in the Persian Gulf.
The giant field, which is known as North Dome in the Qatari territory, is being developed in 24 phases.
A standard phase of South Pars is designed to produce 56 million cubic meters per day of gas. South Pars Gas Field holds an estimated reserve of 40 trillion cubic meters.
The country’s gas production capacity stands over 800 million cubic meters a day, but output has been dented in recent months because of the shutdown of several South Pars production and refining facilities.
