The first onshore gas sweetening train of phases 22-24 of the giant South Pars Gas Field in the Persian Gulf has come on stream, the director of the phases said on Sunday.
“The facility currently receives sour gas from phases 6-8 and injects about 7 million cubic meters of sweet gas into the Sixth Iran Gas Trunkline (IGAT-6),” Farhad Izadjou was also quoted as saying by Shana.
Izadjou added that the refining train will have the capacity to process 12.5 million cubic meters of gas per day once in full swing.
The gas sweetening train was launched concurrently with the installation of the first offshore platform of the field’s Phase 22 on Friday.
Once completed, the platform, weighing 2,300 tons, is slated to produce 14.2 million cubic meters of natural gas per day, which equals half the capacity of a standard South Pars phase.
To launch the refining facility, a series of units, including gas receipt, torch, utilities, water desalination, process and compressor units, had already come on stream.
According to the phases’ officials, the three remaining gas sweetening trains are planned to become operational in six months.
Payam Motamed, the director of Phase 13 development project, has also told the National Iranian Oil Company's portal that the second gas sweetening train in the field's Phase 13 came on stream on Friday, only two months after the implementation of the first train.
The facility is currently active with a capacity of 7 mcm/d of gas and once fully operational, it will transfer 14.2 mcm/d of the strategic fuel to the country’s other regions.
Phases 22-24, the development plan of which started about eight years ago, are aimed at the production of 56.6 million cubic meters of rich gas, 75,000 barrels of gas condensates, 400 tons of sulfur, 1.05 million tons of liquefied petroleum gas and 1 million tons of ethane as petrochemical feedstock.
Natural gas mixtures fall into two general categories: Wet or rich gas with higher concentrations of propane, butane and the intermediate-weight hydrocarbons like pentane through heptanes, and dry or lean gas, which has more methane and ethane (typically 95% or more).
