In the framework of the policy to expand gas supply to the deprived regions, Zabol city in southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province will be supplied with compressed natural gas soon, the National Iranian Gas Company’s deputy for gas distribution said.
Saeed Momeni said CNG delivery is a temporary measure until the project to supply piped gas to households in the distant region is implemented, Shana reported.
"To supply the city with much-needed fuel, a daughter station is ready for operation in Zabol," he said, adding that the mother station is located in Birjand in South Khorasan Province.
Mother stations, located near a natural gas supply point, are used to pump large volumes of CNG into mobile tube trailers, which is then transported via a virtual pipeline. Mobile storage allows transportation of natural gas to a site where daughter stations are installed because there is no natural gas supply.
A daughter station compressor increases pressure from the trailer’s gas and converts it into natural gas to be used for residential and commercial purposes.
According to Momeni, an estimated 750 kilometers of pipeline needs to be laid in Zabol, of which 50km is in place. The rest will be completed in two years.
Pointing to the 265km of Iranshahr-Zahedan gas pipeline inaugurated in March 2017, the official said the pipeline to Zabol branches off from the Zahedan pipeline and will take two years to be extended, and that is why the city should be supplied with CNG for two years.
Rineh in Mazandaran Province, and Khur and Biabanak in Isfahan Province are also supplied with CNG.
The official said CNG transportation is an efficient and cost-effective means of gas supply to the remote and deprived regions, in particular Sistan-Baluchestan Province.
“The Oil Ministry's intention is to deliver natural gas to rural areas to the extent possible.”
Momeni said 720 villages and 81 power plants have been connected to the national gas grid and plans are underway to provide 21,000 industrial units with gas by the end of the current fiscal in March.
