South Pars Phase 19 Gas to Come Online by March

Gas from phase 19 of South Pars field will be fed to the national gas trunkline by March next year, Ali-Akbar Shabanpour, managing-director of Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC) said.

Ali-Akbar Shabanpour said platform 17A of the gas field has also been launched, adding that its gas will be sent to the refinery of phase 18 for treatment, reported state owned Shana News Agency. 

Installation of platform 19C of South Pars phase 19 to bring production from SPD2 platform to 0.5 bcf by winter was completed last month.

Phase 19 is set to produce 50 mcm/d of sweet gas, 75,000 b/d of gas condensate, 400 tons a day of sulfur, 1.05 million tons a year of liquefied petroleum gas and one million tons a year of ethane, according to POGC website.

This development phase was awarded by POGC to a Petropars-led consortium of Petropars Limited and Petropars Iran and IOEC in June 2010 under an engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) contract.

Petropars Limited and Petropars Iran are responsible for onshore installations and drilling operations.