Feasibility for South Pars Gas Delivery
Fajr-e Jam refinery is ready to expand its activities. Hossein Ardeshiri, head of Fajr-e Jam gas refining company's overhaul and renovation section, said when the refinery was being overhauled, feasibility studies were conducted for the receipt of 50/d mcm of gas from South Pars gas field.
"This refinery has currently capacity to receive 25 mcm/d of gas from South Pars reservoir and according to plans envisaged for it this amount will soon increase to 50 mcm/d," he said.
"So far, the receipt of record 27 mcm/d of gas from South Pars reservoir has been registered in this refinery," said Ardeshiri.
Parsian, 2nd Largest Refinery in Iran
Parsian refinery is located between the cities of Lamerd and Mohr in Fars Province in southern Iran. It is the second largest gas refinery in Iran. The first section of this refinery started work in September 2003 with an output capacity of 21 mcm/d of gas and 12,000 b/d of gas condensate. The facility's nominal capacity currently stands at 78.2 mcm/d.
Parsian gas refining company, with an output of 75 mcm/d pf gas, is supplying 13% of Iran's gas needs. It comes second to South Pars refinery.
Parsian refinery produced more than 25 bcm of gas in the last calendar year. Farshid Ebdali, CEO of the refinery, said the refinery has been supplying 75 mcm/d of gas this year.
Parsian produces gas condensate of very high quality, which amounts to 5,000 cubic meters a day or 32,000 barrels. It would be no surprise to see Japan and South Korea being among the main customers of this refinery. In addition to foreign companies, domestic petrochemical plants are among leading buyers of products from this facility.
Ebdali said on average 32,000 b/d of gas condensate is being produced at this refinery, which is exported abroad.
Referring to this refinery's output during the first eight months of the current calendar year, he said: "Some 17.1 bcm of gas has been produced at this refinery. We hope to bring this output to above 25 bcm by the end of the year, which would be beyond our obligations. During the same period of time, we produced 2.176 bcm, equivalent to 6.5 million barrels of gas condensate, which would reach 10 million barrels by the end of the year."
Ebdali said overhaul is one of the most important projects this company has on the agenda. Its last overhaul lasted one month, five days ahead of schedule.
"That helped us have safe and sustainable gas production without any problem," he added.
Modern and Green Refinery
The superiority of Parsian refinery is not limited to its output and quality of products. It has managed to win the "Green Industry" award of the Department of the Environment.
According to Ebdali, the treatment facility has allotted 20% to green space, which is double the standard set by the DOE. Furthermore, this refinery has one of the most modern industrial waste treatment facilities in the province. Due to the existence of adsorbent towers, flaring in this refinery is nearly zero.
He said that Parsian refinery stands in a higher position than other refineries in terms of standards and other indices.
"The consequences of pollution in this refinery stand at almost zero and this company is making serous efforts to spread the correct culture of the environment," he added.
Ebdali said the refinery has had more than 15 million persons-hours of activity without accident, a rare case compared with other refineries.
He cited other outstanding activities as fire alarm and extinction systems, industrial medicine for staff based on timeframe, upgrading firewater system and HSE training courses for young managers and educated staff of the refinery.