Platform 17B of South Pars to be loaded

EghtesadOnline: The platform 17B of South Pars gas field, erected by experts of Iran Shipbuilding & Offshore Industries Complex Co (ISOICO), will be loaded as of Tuesday.

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18 October 2016

The 2,300 ton 17B platform of South Pars, as the fourth platform of the joint field, will have the capacity to extract 500 million cubic feet of gas a day, reports IRNA.

The executive director of the Persian Gulf Mobin Sazeh Gostar Marine Structures Design and Construction Company and operator of the project for construction of the platform, Kurosh Bengar, said seven more oil and gas platforms are built at his company.

Bengar said two gas platforms for phase 14 of South Pars and two oil platforms of Hendijan and three oil platforms of Hengam are now constructed.

He noted that as of June 21, the gas platform for phase 18 of South Pars, built in ISOICO, was installed in South Pars successfully.

The operator of the project for development of phases 17 and 18 of South Pars Hassan Boyeri said on Monday that the platform will be installed on November 10 and put into operation by late February.

Boyeri said once platform B17 is operational, phases 17 and 18 of South Pars will be fully operational.

Persian Gulf Mobin Sazeh Gostar Marine Structures Design and Construction Company, which is one of the four subsidiary companies of ISOICO, is located west of Bandar Abbas.