Mahmoud Shobeiri said on Tuesday that the pre-commissioning ceremony would be held for the refineries during the Ten Day Dawn celebrations, marking the 34th anniversary of the 1979 victory of Iran's Islamic Revolution, in February.
The Iranian contractor added that the refineries will process sour gas from phases 15 and 16 of the South Pars Gas Field.
Shobeiri stated that development of the field’s phases 15 and 16 has so far progressed 94 percent.
Iran is currently producing 300 million cubic meters per day of gas from South Pars.
Iran’s Oil Minister Rostam Qasemi recently announced that 775 million cubic meters per day (mcmpd) of gas would be recovered from South Pars after underway projects come on stream.
The country, which sits on the world's second largest natural gas reserves after Russia, has been trying to enhance its gas production by increasing foreign and domestic investments, especially in South Pars Gas Field.
The South Pars gas field covers an area of 9,700 square kilometers, 3,700 square kilometers of which is in Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf. The remaining 6,000 square kilometers, i.e. North Dome, is in Qatar's territorial waters.
The field contains 14 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, about eight percent of the world's reserves, and more than 18 billion barrels of LNG resources.
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An Iranian contractor says gas refineries related to phases 15 and 16 of Iran’s giant offshore South Pars Gas Field will be pre-commissioned in February 2013.
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