A large natural gas gathering facility became operational Saturday in Khangiran gas field, northeast of Mashhad in Khorasan Razavi Province.
The facility will stockpile 10 million cubic meters of gas during the first eight warm months of the year— March 20 to November 20 — to meet high demand for the fuel in winter in the northern and eastern provinces.
The project cost $20 million and was built with the help of the state-owned East Oil and Gas Production Company, a subsidiary of Iranian Central Oil Fields Company, ILNA reported.
Natural gas gathering system includes both the flow line networks as well as the process facilities. Together they transport and control the flow of the natural gas from its origin point at the well-site to a main storage facility and a processing plant.
Gas gathering is a fundamental part of the midstream sector that involves transportation (by pipeline or truck) and storage of refined petroleum products.
Khangiran field, operated by EOGPC, has three reservoir, namely Mozdouran, Shourijeh B and Shourijeh D. Sour gas from the field is used to meet demand in the northeast province. Data released by EOGPC show the field's current extraction is 17 mcm/d.
EOGPC produces more than 43 million cubic meters per day of gas accounting for 6% of Iran's total natural gas output in a year. The company is in charge of supplying gas to the entire Khorasan region (north, south and Razavi provinces) plus to Semnan, Golestan and Mazandaran provinces.
With a population of 80 million, Iran uses more than 140 billion cubic meters of gas annually, not distant from China, the world’s second-largest economy and the most populous country in the world, which consumed 191 billion cubic meters in 2015.
According to the latest government data, daily gas production is close to 850 million cubic meters.
