The acting head of Ilam Gas Refining Company said the plant has met 103% of its green-space commitment and that environmental projects and knowledge-based firms have cut flaring and returned some flare gas to production.
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The chief executive of the National Iranian Gas Company said the first gas train at Refinery 6 of the South Pars Gas Complex will return to production this year. Three phases with a committed capacity of about 94 million cubic meters a day are already back, and actual recovered capacity on that path is close to 100 million cubic meters a day.
The acting head of Ilam Gas Refining Company said reverse engineering of rotating equipment and the use of machine vision in industrial inspections have sharply cut repair times, raised environmental standards, and saved millions of euros that would otherwise have left the country.
Gazprom warned that Europe is heading into autumn and winter with sharply lower gas stocks, a situation that could cause serious problems for European countries.
The manager of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company’s Golestan region said several scenarios have been written for a possible natural-gas shortage and that provincial LPG storage, as a backup fuel, has been raised to 700 tons.
The chief executive of the National Iranian Gas Company said fuel supplies to power plants and industry stayed stable in the first half of this year despite lower output at South Pars, and that gas delivered to industry and small businesses was 1 billion cubic meters higher than in the same period last year.
The CEO of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said efforts are underway to restore about 100 million cubic meters to Iran’s gas production capacity before the start of the cold season, with necessary measures taken to manage consumption and ensure a stable gas supply during the winter.
A member of parliament’s energy committee pointed to the National Iranian Gas Company’s work to keep gas flowing under difficult conditions and said demand management is strategically important for getting through the cold season.
The CEO of the Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company announced the completion of the 30-inch gas supply pipeline and Konarak pressure-reduction station project, as well as the commissioning of the 15-kilometer pipeline under the framework of Iran’s Seventh and Eleventh National Gas Transmission Pipeline Projects.
Qatar has extended by one more month a partial suspension of its liquefied natural gas export commitments to Asian and European markets, as shipping security in the Strait of Hormuz remains disrupted.
The chief executive of Petropars Group, a subsidiary of the Oil Ministry, said gas production capacity at location B of South Pars Phase 11 has reached 1 billion cubic feet a day after all 12 wells at the site came on stream during the 14th government.
Golestan has spent months tightening coordination among agencies, securing and storing substitute fuel, and writing contingency plans so that gas and power limits hit household supply, critical sites, and factories less hard in the cold season.
The acting head of the South Pars Phase 11 development project said the phase’s twelfth well is ready to enter production and that the last well at location SPD11B in the first development stage has moved into test flow and output monitoring.
The chief executive of the South Pars Gas Complex said turnaround work at six of the complex’s refineries is finished and that the plants are ready to operate with higher readiness and stable, maximum gas production in the cold months.
The manager of Refinery 7 at the South Pars Gas Complex said two important results were recorded during this year’s turnaround and that, relying on Iranian crews, replacement of the floor of one amine tank was cut from a planned 28 days to six days.
The chief executive of Pars Oil and Gas Company said South Pars has set a record of 730 million cubic meters of gas a day and that 30 million cubic meters have been added to the field’s stable rich-gas production capacity over the past two years.
Metering equipment at the South Pars gas-condensate terminal in Asaluyeh — including 13 damaged meter blades — has been rebuilt.
The production and operations manager of Pars Oil and Gas Company said a specialized offshore valve-repair workshop has been set up, cutting South Pars platform downtime and returning units to production faster. The change has prevented a shutdown of 28 million cubic meters of gas a day and generated more than $5 million in economic savings.
The National Iranian Gas Company’s director of integrated planning said enemy attacks damaged the country’s gas facilities and that four South Pars refineries were hit in the third imposed war. From the first moments, he said, crews worked to contain the incidents, form crisis teams, cut refinery feedstock, and plan the reconstruction and recovery of lost capacity.
The chief executive of Ilam Province Gas Company said the utility is fully ready for the cold season, pledged firm action against gas thieves and violators, and said network stability is not possible without public cooperation.