Amir Moghiseh, National Iranian Oil Company’s director of investment and business, said NIOC has signed a feedstock sales contract with the Dehloran petrorefinery for 240 million cubic feet of gas a day — a deal that guarantees investor returns and supports 1,000 direct and 3,000 indirect jobs in the underdeveloped region.
GAS Feed Atom
The head of District 6 of Iran’s gas transmission operations said more than 10 pipeline and compressor-station projects are under way to strengthen the network and supply gas to industry, power plants, and refineries in Hormozgan and Kerman provinces.
The CEO of the South Pars Gas Complex said the facility’s refineries are fully prepared to keep winter gas flowing and are making maximum use of Iranian knowledge-based companies.
The governor of South Khorasan Province said the Nehbandan–Sarbisheh gas transmission line in Iran is more than 80% complete and will enter service before winter.
Global liquefied natural gas (LNG) prices could rise sharply this winter as European gas inventories sit at their lowest levels in years and buyers in North Asia compete more aggressively for cargoes. The Strait of Hormuz also remains closed because of the U.S. war with Iran.
Ilam Gas Refinery has used vacuum thermal reclaiming to recover spent MDEA amine solvent at about 80% efficiency, cutting the need to import fresh solvent and keeping heat-stable salts in circulating amine under control.
Compressed natural gas consumption rose about 11% in the first week after the third gasoline rate on station cards was raised to 10,000 tomans, the oil minister’s deputy said.
Reciprocating compressors for the gas-boosting station at the Binak oil field near Genaveh, Bushehr province, have been designed, built, shipped and installed to international oil-industry standards using Iranian manufacturers, Petroiran Development Group’s deputy CEO said.
Russia’s state gas company Gazprom will stop natural gas deliveries to Armenia for 10 days for planned maintenance on a pipeline inside Russia.
Development of the Farzad, Balal and Kish gas fields is moving twice as fast as in the comparable earlier period, as part of a two-year gas-output drive, Pars Oil and Gas Company Managing Director Touraj Dehghani said.
The second propane tank at the South Pars Phases 22–24 refinery has entered service with domestically made cryogenic pumps, and the first export cargo from the tank has been loaded.
Iran’s Social Security oil and energy holdings met the Foreign Ministry’s economic deputy to try to clear obstacles to gas imports from Turkmenistan, as part of efforts to ease the country’s energy imbalance.
The eighth refinery at the South Pars Gas Complex has begun a major overhaul covering 1,542 maintenance jobs aimed at safer, more stable gas production.
During a field visit, the CEO of Pars Oil and Gas Company stressed the need to gradually restore gas-refining capacity ahead of the cold season.
The acting head of Ilam Gas Refining Company said the plant’s gas production rose 7.5% from the beginning of September 2024 through the end of August 2026, reaching 1.665 billion cubic meters.
Iran can lift storage capacity at the Sarajeh Qom gas reservoir by 50% from an initial 1 billion cubic meters, the head of the Iranian Gas Engineering and Development Company said.
Well-intervention operations have been carried out on three South Pars gas platforms to make wells safer and support stable gas production.
About one-third of Iran’s gas production capacity was lost in the March 18, 2026 incident, but the nationwide grid was brought under control in less than an hour and a wider breakdown was avoided, National Iranian Gas Company Managing Director Saeed Tavakoli said.
Iranian Gas Transmission Company’s District 7 is using reliability projects, parallel lines, alternative routes and new infrastructure to strengthen gas supply across western and northwestern Iran, the district manager said.
Iran must start winter gas planning now and bring energy-service companies into the effort after damage cut South Pars output by about 20%, the deputy chair of parliament’s Article 90 Commission said.
