Iran to Build Underground Storage for South Pars Gas

Iran is planning to build underground storage facilities to store natural gas produced from South Pars field. The country will make operational two natural gas storage facilities in the current year.

Press TV said citing Massoud Samivand, managing director of Natural Gas Storage Company (NGSC), that country’s natural gas storage capacity should hit 14 billion cubic meters by the end of the 2015. 

He added that Iran should be able to withdraw a daily total of 130 million cubic meters of natural gas from underground storage facilities.  

Construction of three underground gas storage facilities is simultaneously going on in Sarajeh region of Qom province, Yortsha region near the city of Varamin, and Shourijeh region in Khorasan Province. 

Samivand noted that the three new stores will be able to contain eight billion cubic meters of natural gas per year.