Managing director of the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC), Javad Oji, made above remarks in an interview with Shana adding while at the time being the company exports 10 billion cubic meters of gas to Turkey each year but gas export volume will rise to 30 billion cubic meters per year in nearly next two years by taking into account gas exports to Armenia, Iraq, Pakistan and gas swap with Nakhjavan autonomous republic located northwest of Iran.
‘By coming online new phases in South Pars gas field and construction of new pipelines, there would be the possibility to deliver another 30 billion cubic meters of gas per year to other customers’, the official noted.
Boosting processing capacity and dehydration to 1.132 billion cubic meters per day, yearly production of 9.45 million tons of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), 7.990 million tons of ethane and three million tons of sulfur are among the other targets of NIGC during the fifth five-year development plan.
NIGC plans to built 12.250 kilometers of high pressure gas pipeline, 29 boosting gas pressure facilities, 72 thousand kilometers of gas network pipeline, installation of 1.8 million splitters and expanding gas services to 3.6 million new families across the country’, Oji told Shana.
Supplying gas to 212 large industrial centers, 36 power plants, 200 cities and 9 thousand villages are among the other NIGC’s targets up to the end of fifth five year development plan.
Drafting NIGC’s master plan, providing 37 billion dollars of financial resources, implementation of development plan of Ilam and Bidboland-2 gas processing plants, implementation of ethane project in Parsian gas plant and development of infrastructures for transfer of gas that is going to be produced in new phases of South Pars gas field are other targets of the company up to the end of fifth five year development plan’s term.
‘Replacing current gas counters with smart ones, reducing gas waste in the network, conservation of gas consumption in processing, transfer and distribution sectors, promoting stability of production and transfer of gas, meeting gas export needs, increasing gas injection, implementation of article of 44 of the constitution in connection to refining and distribution sectors, practical moves for coping with sanctions, reinforcing self-sufficiency and boosting domestically manufacturing are among the other tasks of gas industry up to 2015’ Oji concluded.
