According to
Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC), Payam Motamed announced that two flare stacks
of two offshore platforms of the phase (13B and the satellite 13D) had been
lit, adding the pipeline to carry sour gas from the phase to land refining
facilities would become operational soon.
He said the
gas flares prepared only four days after hookup and commissioning operations
which was a new record by its own.
The official
said once the platform became fully operational, production of sour gas would
reach 1 billion cubic feet per day (or 28 mcm/d) from the phase which would be
half of the its projected production capacity.
Motamed
further said that Iranian experts launched the two major platforms, Shana wrote.
A 32-inch
sea pipeline is build to transfer the gas to onshore refineries of the
phase.
Phase 13 is
being developed for production of 56 mcm/d of rich gas, 75,000 b/d of gas
condensates, 400 tons/day of sulfur and 1.05 million tons per year of liquefied
petroleum gas (LPG) and a million tons per year of ethane.