Project Profile

Value: US$6.5 billion
Location: Persian Gulf, Iran
Capacity: Combined 51 mcm per day of gas, 80,000 bpd of gas condensate, 400 tpd of sulphur, and 1.5 million tpy of LPG and 1 million tpy of ethane
Production: combined 38 mcm per day.
Start-up year: late December 2015
Completion: March 2017 (expected)

The development of phases 17 & 18 of South Pars gas field is to be implemented to produce 50 million cubic metres of natural gas, 80,000 barrels of gas condensate, 400 MT of sulfur per day, and also 1 million MT of ethane and 1.05 million MT of liquid propane and butane (LPG) per annum. The onshore facilities of this project will be constructed in Asalouyeh region, some 100 kilometres from Asalouyeh coast. The offshore facilities of this project include four drilling platforms with 44 wells, two 32-inch submarine pipelines for transferring the gas, and two 4-inch pipelines for transferring Glycol solution.

The onshore refinery of this project is to be constructed adjacent to phases 9 and10 in Asalouyeh, in a piece of land with an area of approximately 155 hectares and comprises of four gas sweetening units, gas condensate stabilisation unit and its storage tanks, gas sweetening and dehydration unit, gas cooling unit ;and ethane, propane and butane separation unit, desulphurisation and demercaptanisation and gas compression unit for transfer, Sulfur recovery and granulation unit, and MEG regeneration unit. The refinery required steam, sweet water, and cooling systems are supplied by the refinery logistic units, while the required electricity is supplied by the projects\' common power plant. The contract for this project has been awarded to a Consortium of IDRO, IOEC and OIEC. The project will be completed in 52 months. The executive operations of these phases started in the presence of the esteemed president of I.R. of Iran in July 2007. In November 2015, Iran has started pumping 10 mcm/d of natural gas from phase 17 development of the massive South Pars gas field. Platform 17A of phase 17 is finalized and operational on November 17, 2015. The phase\\\'s production is expected to reach 15 mcm/d within the next 10 days. The gas will be fed to Iran Gas Trunkline 7 (IGAT 7) from offshore facilities to be consumed domestically. The refining capacity of phases 17&18 will reach 40 mcm/d by late December 2015.


Operators:

Pars Oil & Gas Company (subsidiary of National Iranian Oil Company)


Contractors:

Daelim Industrial: Development

Dana Drilling Co.: Drilling contractor

Europipe GmbH: onshore Pipes

Iran Marine Industries Company (Sadra): EPC for platforms

Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company (IOEC): metal Jackets

Industrial Development and Renovation Organisation of Iran (IDRO): EPC contract

Namvaran Engineering & Management: Engineering management

National Iranian Drilling Company (NIDC): Drilling contractor

Offshore Design Engineering Ltd (ODE): Basic engineering study

Oil Industries Engineering and Construction (OIEC)

Ranhill Worley: Detailed engineering

Sadra Company: Manufacture offshore equipment


Sub contractor:

Tehran Raymand Consulting Engineers: Detail design of some units

WorleyParsons Pty Ltd: Basic Engineering and FEED contracted by IDRO/OIEC Consortium