Iran Hits New Daily Household Gas Peak
Iran’s residential gas use is expected to hit a historic daily record at 570mn m3 (20.12bn ft3) on January 30, state National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said that day.
That’s about 20mn m3/d more than previous day and 100mn m3/d more than weekends, it added. The previous peak in household gas use was over a year ago, on January 6 2017, when it reached 538mn m3/d. Prior to that, the figure had never passed 500mn m3/d. Daily gas demand spikes in the Iranian winter, with temperatures in the capital Tehran expected to plunge to minus 9C overnight, with snow having already covered 28 provinces in recent days.
NIGC’s report did not discuss expected gas deliveries to other sectors or export volumes January 30. However its January 29 report said that power plants and industry each consumed 90mn m3/d.
Iran’s average total sweet gas consumption in the fiscal year from March 21 2016 to March 20 2017 was about 570.38mn m3/d, which was 5.5% higher than the previous 12-month period.
Iran’s gas consumption
|
mn m3/d |
March 21-December 22 2017 |
January 29 2018 |
March 21 2016 to March 20 2017 |
|
Residential |
147.4 |
538 |
268.74 |
|
Power plants |
200 |
90 |
167.45 |
|
Industrial sector |
148.3 |
90 |
94 |
Source: Oil ministry; the figures in the right hand column total 530.19mn m3/d, which is about 40mn m3/d less than the total 570.38mn m3/d cited in the text. This is because the table covers Iran's three main demand sectors only. Remaining smaller sectors such as petrochemicals and natural gas vehicles together account for the other 40mn m3/d.