Self-Sufficiency in Gas Odorant Production at South Pars Complex

More than 553 tons of mercaptan, a gas odorant, were produced at the first refinery of South Pars Gas Complex last year (March 2022-23) with the efforts of the specialists of the complex, the director of the refinery said.
“The production unit of gas odorant is the first of its kind in the Middle East and one of the few in the world, which has made Iran self-sufficient in producing the product and the country need not import the material now,” Hossein Hamzavi was also quoted as saying by the Oil Ministry’s news service Shana.
“Mercaptan is a strategic industrial material, which is no longer the monopoly of just a few countries, as it has been indigenized by Iranian experts and engineers,” he added.
Hamzavi noted that currently, daily production of the unit is about 1.8 tons, and because of rising domestic demand, several projects have been launched to increase output to about 2,000 tons per year soon, which will make it possible to export the material as well.