The second month of last calendar year started with news ...

The second month of last calendar year started with
news about developments in the gas industry. Iran’s
24th annual Oil Show was also held in this year. NIGC
assigned building the second phase of the Ilam gas
refinery to the Iran Gas Engineering
and Development Company. Once
the second phase of the Ilam refinery
is commissioned, feedstock supply
to the facility would increase from
6.8 mcm/d to 10.2 mcm/d with
production set to increase 50%.

Gas Development in Sistan
& Baluchestan
The infrastructure was prepared for gas
distribution in Sistan &
Baluchestan Province. About
IRR 5,200 billion in credit was
earmarked for expanding gas
distribution in the province.

119 Gas Projects in West
Azarbaijan
Concurrently with President Hassan Rouhani’s
visit to West Azarbaijan Province,
operations began for 119 gas
supply projects in the northwestern
province. The 110 projects would
cost more than IRR 620 billion.

The knowhow for developing vibration

monitoring and protection systems (a high-
tech strategic product) is to be developed

domestically. The technology for such systems was
monopolized by the world’s top brands. The decision
for developing this technology was the challenge of
purchasing such systems from foreign companies
to be used in the oil and gas industry equipment,
particularly rotary machinery. Once this system
has been domestically manufactured, Iran’s gas
transmission network would no longer depend on
purchasing from abroad. Moreover, it would cost
about one-twentieth less than foreign prototypes.

Inauguration in Rapid Succession

Last calendar year saw Iran’s oil refining industry take important steps towards development and self-sufficiency. The refining
industry has signed memorandums with the Petroleum Ministry and some other ministries and bodies. One of these MOUs was on
producing needle and sponge coke at the Bandar Abbas and Imam Khomeini oil refineries. They were signed between National
Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC) and Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation
Organization (IMIDRO) with a view to putting an end to Iran’s sponge coke imports. Another achievement of the oil refining industry
is full commissioning of phases 1, 2 and 3 of the Bandar Abbas gas condensate refinery, generally known as the Persian Gulf Star

refinery. Some 70% of the equipment used at the condensate refinery was made in Iran.

Technical
Knowhow to Repair
Siemens Turbines
Iranian engineers at NIGC have developed the
knowhow needed to repair the vibration section
of gas turbines manufactured by Siemens. It was
part of preventive maintenance projects in the gas
industry. That would save € 350,000 per turbine
as Iran would no longer depend on foreign expert

services for gas turbines.

Mideast Largest
Storage Site
Seven natural gas storage sites were said to
have been envisaged in Iran. The project for the
Shourijeh underground gas storage site would
be a build-operate-transfer (BOT) one. The
first appraisal wells for this purpose had been
drilled in Qezel Tappeh storage site in Golestan

Province.

IGAT9 Online
NIGC announced that 125 kilometers of the
Iran Gas Trunkline 9 (IGAT9) with a capacity
of 60 mcm had come online. Near the under
construction IGAT6, the IGAT9 is being
extended from Bid Boland to the Bazargan
border post in order to supply gas to the
western corridor.

Gas Decompressors

The winter began with news about self-
sufficiency and domestic manufacturing of

items and equipment used in the gas industry.
The first decompressor was installed at the city
gas station (CGS) of the Tehran Province Gas
Company. These decompressors could be moved

to other spots.

Fiber Optics MOU
A memorandum of understanding was
signed between the Iran Gas Transmission
Company and the Iran Oil Pipeline and
Telecommunications Company for exchanging
fiber optics with a view to boosting the telecom
infrastructure of the Petroleum Ministry for
the purpose of economic resilience, increased
productivity, reduced costs and avoiding overlap in
operations.

Strategic Commodity Made
in Iran
The knowhow for developing vibration

monitoring and protection systems (a high-
tech strategic product) is to be developed

NIGC Research Project
Last month of the last calendar year to 19
March 2020 saw research events in the gas
industry. The research project “boosting
maintenance management system and
reparation in line with obligations of management
of physical assets at IGTC” was recognized as the top
research project by the Ministry of Science, Research
and Technology.

2nd Phase of Ilam Gas
Refinery
The second month of last calendar year started with
news about developments in the gas industry. Iran’s
24th annual Oil Show was also held in this year. NIGC
assigned building the second phase of the Ilam gas
refinery to the Iran Gas Engineering
and Development Company. Once
the second phase of the Ilam refinery
is commissioned, feedstock supply
to the facility would increase from
6.8 mcm/d to 10.2 mcm/d with
production set to increase 50%.

Gas Supply Projects
On the 41st anniversary of the victory of the Islamic
Revolution, 3,000 gas supply and development
projects came online with a credit
allocation of IRR 190,000 billion.
At the same time, the operation of
12 gas transmission lines started
and 579 kilometers of pipes came
online. Furthermore, construction
operations started for another 159
kilometers of new pipeline.