Azerbaijan, Baku, July 17/Trend M. Moezzi
Early production at Phase 13 of the Iranian joint South Pars oil and gas field will begin next June with the drilling of eight wells, which will add 25 million cubic meters of gas a day to the country's
production level.
Right now, the heavy equipment needed for phase 13 is being installed and last week towers weighing 450 tonnes-the heaviest among the Persian Gulf field's phases targeted for early development-were finished, the Shana news agency reports.
The pipelines needed for phase 13 will be 104 kilometers long and are in the process of being coated. A pipe-laying ship needed for laying the phase's pipeline has been sea tested and is ready for work.
Work on the onshore part of phase 13's operations has moved ahead 60 percent and the half of the entire project is complete.
This Thursday, the phase's first steel jacket will be moved to the field and a second jacket will be in installed two months. Overall, four drilling platforms will be installed.
The gas extracted from phase 13. A top adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader says member countries of the Non Alliance Movement (NAM) have prevented the world from being divided between two world powers and must be ready for whatever the unknown future is.
Phase 13 will cost $6.2 billion to complete, with about $2.6 billion of that funding at hand.
Iran and Qatar share the 9,700 square kilometer South Pars field. Iran's share of the field is divided into 24 phases. As Qatar has raced ahead in developing South Pars, Iran has been hampered by international sanctions and lack of funds. It is trying to speed up its South Pars operations to avoid losing any more of the field's resources to Qatar.
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