South Pars Refinery to Use Strategic Materials to Save 8.5 Million Dollars

Amana Torabi, a PhD in chemical engineering and a researcher in the company’s research department, described the product as strategic, and said, “The company consists of 9 active companies, part of which is dedicated to producing basic products in the field of chemicals. One of these products is zeolite powder, which is capable of competing with foreign samples and has even shown technical superiority over them in some indicators.”

“This powder is used in the mercaptanization process of natural gas and also in the separation of oxygen and nitrogen, which is one of its most important uses in medical equipment and oxygen-generating devices,” she added.

“This powder sample is the basis for the production of products like granules and extrudates that are used in various industries. Its main ingredient is zeolite; a material whose mines are abundant in the country,” Torabi noted.

She divided zeolites into two categories of natural and synthetic, saying that the product made by the company is synthetic zeolite, the raw materials for which are also produced within the company.

“At present, the most common use of this product is in the natural gas purification process,” Torabi said.

South Pars is currently divided into 24 standard phases on the Iranian side and is estimated to contain a significant amount of natural gas, accounting for about eight percent of the world’s reserves, and approximately 18 billion barrels of condensate.

In relevant remarks in February, an Iranian official at the South Pars gas field announced that over 710,000 barrels of gas condensates are produced in 13 refineries in the country.

Deputy of Site 2 at the South Pars Gas Complex Hassan As’adi underlined production of gas condensate at the refineries of the complex, noting that over 710,000 barrels of gas condensate are produced daily across 13 refineries.

This production fully supplies the feedstock for the Persian Gulf Star Refinery and the Nouri (Borzuyeh) Petrochemical Plant, he added.

As’adi referred to the seven key strategic products of the South Pars Gas Complex, including the daily production of over 595 million cubic meters of sweet gas, saying that since the beginning of this year, over 182 billion cubic meters of sweet gas have been sent from South Pars refineries to the national grid, providing warmth to households during the cold season.

He also said that ethane, another product of the complex, supplies about 45% of the feedstock for petrochemical plants in the South Pars region, adding that other products include propane and butane, which have high added value for the country and are exported daily.

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