The platform jacket for the Phase 11 of South Pars Gas Field is ready in Qeshm Island and will be installed on its location in the Persian Gulf before the current Iranian year is out (March 19), managing director of Petropars Group said.
“The drilling rig will be put on the jacket in the coming months and with the completion of other installations, gas production is expected to start by the summer of 2022,” the Oil Ministry news agency Shana quoted Hamid-Reza Masoudi as saying.
Phase 11, which is the last phase of South Pars Gas Field, is in the vicinity of Iran-Qatar joint water frontier.
In 2017 the project was assigned to Petropars in cooperation with Total of France and CNPC of China. However, due to the mounting US pressure and new sanctions in 2018, the two companies fearing America’s wrath walked away from the project.
Eventually a decision was made last October to cede development of Phase 11 to Petropars and draw on domestic potential and capability to get the job done.
The decision was based on the valuable experience and capabilities Petropars had acquired in the course of development of over half of the South Pars Gas Field.
Phase 11 is scheduled to be developed in two integrated and consecutive stages. Stage one will consist of drilling 30 wells plus fabrication and erection of two production platforms. Each stage will contain 15 wells and produce 56 million cubic meters of gas per day plus 75,000 barrels of gas condensate. This will require construction and installation of two 32-inch pipelines jointly stretching over 270 kilometers.
Phase 13 Progress
The third platform of Phase 13 was in place on Monday. Platform 13A is manufactured by Iran Marine Industrial Company, SADRA, in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas.
After completion of the hook-up operations, the mega-structure (2,500 tons) will have gas extraction capacity of 14.2 million cubic meters a day.
The first two platforms of Phase 13 were launched in 2018. The fourth will be installed in the coming days. When operational, all four platforms of this phase will produce 56 mcm of gas, 75,000 barrels of gas condensate and 400 tons of sulfur on a daily basis. It will also produce 1.1 million tons liquefied natural gas and 1 million tons of ethane.
South Pars has 24 phases and is located in the Persian Gulf straddling the maritime border between Iran and the Arab state of Qatar.
It covers 9,700 square kilometers, of which 3,700 square kilometers belongs to Iran.
The Iranian side of the field contains an estimated 14 trillion cubic meters of gas and 18 billion barrels of condensates.
