Iran Has Sufficient Infrastructure to Store 8 Bcm of Gas

Iran has built up sufficient infrastructure to store eight billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas.

Managing-Director of Natural Gas Storage Company (NGSC) Masoud Samivand said the infrastructure has been provided with the cooperation of National Iranian Oil Company and National Iranian Gas Company, reports Shana news agency.

He said that Shourijeh gas storage facility will propel Iran to the fifth position in the world in terms of gas storage capacity.

According to Shana, Shourijeh storage facility will supply gas to North Khorasan, Khorasan Razavi, Mazandaran, Guilan and even Ardebil provinces in north, northeast and northwest of Iran.

Over the coming seven months, 5 mcm/d of gas would be stored in Shourijeh.

Shourijeh facility, located 25 kilometers southeast of Sarakhs in northwestern Iran, can store up to 4.8 bcm of gas. The storage facility has a refinery with the capacity of 20 mcm/d.

Iran officially inaugurated its first gas storage facility near the village of Sarajeh -- located approximately 124 kilometers south of the Iranian capital, Tehran -- in early January.

The Sarajeh facility is said to have the capacity to store 1.2 billion cubic meters of gas in its first phase and 3.3 billion cubic meters in the second phase.