Phase 11, a project that was completed in 20 months after 20 years of uncertainty

According to a Fars reporter; Today, the South Pars phase 11 platform was successfully installed by the Oceanic vessel, so that in the next step, with the launch and operation of the platform by the end of summer, Iran’s border phase in this common field with Qatar will finally reach gas production after 20 years.

The story of the development of phase 11 dates back to 20 years ago, when France’s Total and Malaysia’s Petronas undertook its development, but since then this phase has been changing hands between foreign companies.

Of course, the phase 11 project was entrusted to the Iranian company Petropars at the end of the 10th government in August 2019, and the work was progressing when Bijan Zanganeh, the former oil minister, took this project from Petropars without any reason, and again this project was entrusted to the Total company and in The limbo of uncertainty was placed.

The withdrawal of the United States from the JCPOA and the return of sanctions caused Total to withdraw from the South Pars Field Phase 11 project, and its implementation was placed on the shoulders of its only remaining shareholder, Petropars.

*Operations that were performed for the first time in the world

With the inauguration of the 13th government, in 1400, Petropars Group announced the official notification of 2 important contracts to accelerate the development of phase 11, which were related to the implementation of the marine pipeline, as well as the transfer, modification and installation of the production platform in the position of SPD11B.

7 months later, i.e. August 1401, the marine piping operation of the first phase 11 gas transmission line was completed, which included a 32-inch marine sour gas pipeline and a 4.5-inch monoethylene glycol injection pipeline.

For the production of this phase, it was decided that for the first time in the world, the removal and loading of the gas platform will be carried out by an oceanic vessel and the third platform of phase 12 will be moved to position B of phase 11. This initiative brought the project forward by 3 to 5 years and removed the construction time of the new platform from this project.

Finally, in April of this year, the drilling of 4 wells was completed, and now with the installation of the platform, everything is ready to produce gas from phase 11, which will be 15 million cubic meters per day in the first step.

Also, an order for the construction of another platform and another jacket for this phase was made in 1400, so that it can be immediately operational with new drillings, additional development and reaching the daily production of 56 million cubic meters of gas as the final production of this phase in the future.

Of course, according to the plan, the production of this phase was supposed to start in the winter of the previous year, but in any case, the completion of this project in 20 months, after 20 years of uncertainty, is considered a forward-looking action.

A note from Seyyed Ahsan Hosseini

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