Gas from South Pars Field Phase 12 to Reach Iranian Shore Next Year

Gas flow from the offshore South Pars gas field phase 12 will reach onshore installations up to the end of next Iranian calendar year (ending on March 20 2012), Rasoul Falahnejad who is in charge of the phase 12 development announced here.

He named the year 1390 as an exceptional year in view of hard work and funding the project adding based on our planning, gas processing by the onshore installations of the phase would be started during the first quarter of the year 1391 (starting 21 March 2012) reaching full production capacity in third quarter of the same year.

Stating the phase has generally progressed by 44 percent, he said despite imposing restrictions by the western countries, onshore operations of the phase have moved forward by more than 26 percent, Iran’s SHANA news agency reported.

Referring to satisfying concreting operations and construction of infrastructures at onshore sector of the phase 12, the official said that installation of steel structures had been started along with completion of designing work and ordering necessary goods and equipments. “Laying offshore gas pipelines has progressed by 86 percent”, he said.

He went on to say that laying the 149 kilometers length “Pipeline A” and 140 kilometers length “pipeline B” had been completed amid appropriate speed of laying “pipeline C” that is moving forward by laying two kilometers of pipeline each day.

Referring to the completion of 75 kilometers of the150 kilometers length Third Gas Pipeline of the phase 12, he said that in case of good weather condition in the Persian Gulf, there is the possibility to complete the pipeline up to next April.

It’s worth mentioning that, the south pars gas field phase 12 development is the biggest ongoing project of the Petropars Company. The production capacity of the project is equal to three conventional South Pars phases.

South Pars phase 12 developments aims to produce 75 million cubic meters of gas per day for injection to sixth Trans-Iranian gas pipeline or delivering it to LNG plants, production of 120 thousand barrels of gas condensates and 750 tons of sulfur.

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Source: NIGC, March 14, 2011;