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A European company to develop Lavan gas field



Tehran (Shana) – The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has concluded a deal with a European company about the investment and technical aspects of the Lavan gas field development plan, an oil official said.
In an exclusive interview with Shana newswire, Mahmoud Zirakchianzade managing director of the National Iranian Offshore Oil Company (NIOOC) said: a delegation from the company is going to visit Tehran soon to finalize the negotiations.
Describing the negotiations desirable, Mr. Zirakchianzade noted talks are underway about the way of selling gas (in the form of LNG or natural gas) and other aspects related to the contract.

He said recently a delegation from NIOC's legal and contract department accompanied by a number of NIOOC's technical experts visited Europe to talk about the different aspects of the contract.
Mr. Zirakchianzade told Shana that next round of the talks will be held in Tehran before the end of the current Iranian calendar year on 20 March.
NIOOC's managing director went on to say that big part of the deal has been finalized during the European visit and the remaining, mainly related to executive works, is going to be pursued in Tehran talks.
Stating that the Lavan gas development plan will be one of the successful plans in the country, Mr. Zirakchianzade remarked that the two sides are very serious to finalize the deal.
Having said that under the contract, European side is committed to invest in the project, NIOOC' managing director noted that in place reserves of the field amounts to six trillion cubic meters and by launching the project, four million tons of LNG will be exported to Europe each year.
Lavan gas field is located in the southern part of Iran in the Persian Gulf.

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L' Iran veut travailler en commun avec le Koweit pour développer le champs gazier de Arash, bien que les différends territoriaux ne soit pas résolus.

En regardant la carte du 1er post du fil, je vois pas ou c' est.

Iran eying joint work on gas field with Kuwait

Reuters reported that Iran has proposed to Kuwait that the 2 OPEC countries together develop the disputed Arash natural gas field in the Gulf.

Mr Mahmoud Zirakchianzadeh head of the state Offshore Oil Company said that Iran has proposed that development, investment, production and management be done on a joint basis by the parties involved. He said that Kuwait was expected to accept Iran’s idea of joint development of the field.

Mr Zirakchianzadeh said that the Iran Offshore Oil Company has raised the proposal of 'partnership instead of competition for the development of this as well as other joint hydrocarbon fields.

Meanwhile, Kuwait and Iran dispute the ownership of Arash, but Iranian state media last November said that the 2 countries called for cooperation in connection to the resolution of the continental shelf issue.

http://steelguru.com/news/index/MTM2MjU ... uwait.html

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Iran's IOOC asks Kuwait to jointly develop shared Arash field

7 mars 2010 Tehran (Platts)

The Iranian Offshore Oil Company has submitted a proposal to Kuwait for jointly developing the shared Arash oil and gas field, the oil ministry's Shana news agency reported Saturday.
Citing IOOC managing director Mahmoud Zirakchian Zadeh, Shana said the proposal focused on joint development, as opposed to competition, for the Arash field, as well as other shared fields.
Iran proposed that development, investment, production and management of the Arash field be made with tripartite participation, Zirakchian Zadeh said, adding he hoped Kuwait would accept the proposal.

The Arash field, also known as al-Dorra, is shared between Iran, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
Iran said in 2008 it planned to go ahead and drill the field on its own despite a 2003 agreement that it would not take any action in the offshore field before the continental shelf is demarcated and an Iran-Kuwait border was established.
Iran claims it owns half of the field, although Kuwait claims more than half for itself.
Iran has said its share from the field is 42 million barrels of oil and 65.5 million barrels of condensates. The field also has estimated gas reserves of 20 Tcf.
The maritime border dispute goes back to the 1960s, when Iran and Kuwait awarded offshore concessions to the Anglo-Iranian Petroleum Co, which later became BP, and Shell that overlapped in the northern part of the field.

la carte :

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Iran says to spend $6.8 bln on gas sector this year

TEHRAN, March 13 (Reuters) - Iran will spend $6.8 billion on development projects in the gas sector this year, a senior energy official said on Saturday.

Javad Oji, managing director of the National Iranian Gas Co., said on oil ministry website SHANA that the money would be spent on Iran's ninth trans-national gas pipeline, further work on a second gas pipeline to neighbouring Turkmenistan, and expansion plans for the Ilam, Jam and Parsian refineries.
The new Iranian year begins on March 21.
Analysts say Iran, one of the world's biggest energy producers, needs funds to help modernise and expand its oil and gas sector.

International sanctions over its nuclear energy programme have hurt its economy and made Western companies wary of investing. Washington and its allies fear Tehran seeks nuclear weapons, Iran says it is enriching uranium for electricity only.
Iran is also vulnerable to future sanctions that could target its gasoline imports since it does have enough refining capacity to meet domestic needs.
Oji said Iran's gas exports over the past year were 6.8 billion cubic metres, an increase of 2 billion cubic metres on the previous year. Turkey is the biggest recipient of Iranian gas.
Oji said compared to gas imports from Turkmenistan of 5.9 billion cubic metres in the year ending March 20, making Iran a net gas exporter.

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Excellent post de Geopolis en rapport avec mon post du 03 mars 2010 : viewtopic.php?p=268121#p268121 sur le gazoduc entre le champs gazier de Sout Pars en Iran, vers le Pakistan.

le post de Geopolis du 17 Mars 2010 : viewtopic.php?p=269086#p269086

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South Pars phases 17 and 18 drilling starts


» CNPC in Iran gas deal, beefs up Tehran team
» South Pars phase 16 drilling starts soon


TEHRAN (Shana)- Drilling in the phase 17 of South Pars gas field started late last Iranian calendar year (ending 20 March) and drilling in the phase 18 of the project will be started early summer this year, an official at South Pars project announced here on Friday.

In an exclusive interview with Shana newswire, Ahamad Poriaei, Offshore operations director at development plan of the South Pars gas field phases 17 and 18 said that installation of two jackets in the phases 17 and 18 have been completed and drilling has been started. He went on to say that totally 44 wells would be drilled in four main and supplementary platforms in the two phases and predicted that drilling of 22 wells in the two main platforms would be completed over next 20 months.

He expressed that the maritime sector of South Pars phases 17 and 18 has a total of four platforms, said: "In Phase 17, SPD25 supplementary platform connects to main platform SPD24 with a 18-inch pipeline and in Phase 18, SPD26 supplementary platform connects with a pipeline 20-inch to main platform SPD23.

The South Pars gas field phases 17 and 18 were designed in 2005 in order to produce 50 million cubic meters of natural gas, 80 thousand barrels of gas condensates and 400 tons of sulfur each day. Annual production capacity of the two phases also would be one million tons of ethane and 1.05 million tons of liquid gas (propane and butane LPG).

Maritime installations of the phases are being built in 100 km distance form Assaluyeh in the Bushehr province in southern part of Iran.

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L'iran et le koweît en négociation sur la livraison de 8.5 millions de m3 de gaz iranien par jour pour satisfaire la consommation intérieure koweïtienne.

Iran in talks with Kuwait to export 8.5 mil cu m/d of gas: agency

Tehran (Platts) 07/04/10

The National Iranian Gas Exports Company is in talks with Kuwait for the sale of 8.5 million cubic meters/day of natural gas to help the emirate meet its domestic fuel needs, the oil ministry's Shana news agency reported Wednesday.

"Under the agreements made with this country, a daily amount of 8.5 million cubic meters of gas from South Pars field will be delivered to Kuwait's Ras al-Zour," Shana quoted NIGEC managing director Reza Kasaizadeh as saying.
"So far the talks have made suitable process in a positive atmosphere."

The NIGEC official added the two countries were still negotiating a price for the gas. He also said the two sides plan on establishing a joint venture company, with participants from both the public and private sector, for the construction of a 577 km (360 mile) gas export pipeline, 330 km of which will be onshore with the remaining 240 km in the Persian Gulf sea, linking the two countries.
Iran lies on the world's second largest gas reserves behind Russia with around half of its 30,000 Bcm in gas reserves found in the giant offshore South Pars gas field. The country's only current gas exports are to Turkey, which takes around 25 million cu m/d, while it imports a similar amount from Turkmenistan.
Kuwait, meanwhile, has had difficulty in recent years satisfying demand for feedstock to supply local industries, to fuel demanding electrical power stations, a growing petrochemical industry, and desalination plants.

These shortages have forced the government to implement nationwide rationalization programs to conserve electrical usage during summer months, which has affected some smaller industries and the petrochemical industry, and last year Kuwait took its first ever LNG deliveries through its new floating import terminal installed by Texas-based Excelerate Energy at the south pier of the Mina al-Ahmadi refinery.

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L'Iran envisage de remplacer la société turque TPAO sur le développement de la phase 22-24 du projet South Pars.

Iran considers replacing Turkey's TPAO in $7 bil gas project

Tehran (Platts) 18/04/2010

Iran is considering replacing Turkey's TPAO in a $7 billion gas project with the Iranian Khatam-al Anbiya construction group, which is affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guards, as it waits for the Turkish company to commit to the project, the Mehr news agency reported Sunday.
Mehr said in an exclusive report that the Iranian oil ministry has started talks with Khatam-al Anbiya for the development of phases 22-24 of the massive South Pars gas field, awarded to the Turkish company in November 2008.

"While the Tehran-Ankara talks continue, the oil ministry is negotiating with domestic groups to start the development of phases 22-24 if final agreement is not reached with Turkey," Mehr said in an unsourced report.
"Khatam-al Anbiya construction will lead a consortium including Iran Development and Renovation Organization and some other contractors such as Iran Shipbuilding Offshore Industries Complex Co., Saff Offshore Industries Company, Sadra and Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company," the main domestic firms involved in Iran's oil and gas industry, it added.

Under the agreement signed with TPAO, the three South Pars phases would produce 40 million cubic meters of gas, 57,000 barrels of condensates, 300 mt of sulfate per day and annual production of 750,000 mt of ethane and 800 mt of LPG.
Turkey will be able to export up to 30 billion cubic meters/year of gas back to Turkey, both to meet Turkish needs and for export to Europe.
The agreement also involves TPAO constructing a 35 billion cu.m/year capacity pipeline from the Iranian Persian Gulf port of Assalouyeh to the Turkish border for the gas to be produced from South Pars and for gas from Turkmenistan, which will be carried by the Nabucco gas pipeline.

Last October, Iran gave Turkey an extended deadline, which expired at the end of January 2010, to make a final investment decision on the project.
Turkey's energy ministry said March 26 that it hoped to sign an initial agreement with Iran for the upstream phase of the project within weeks but there has been no word since then as to whether the talks with Turkey, a member of NATO, have progressed.

The apparent impasse comes amid international moves to put more pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear enrichment program through a new set of UN sanctions.

However any agreement between Turkey and Iran will be sure to anger the US, which has been pressuring Turkey to back its call for sanctions against Tehran in response to Iran's ongoing nuclear program.
Last month, Turkish officials said Ankara saw no benefit in imposing sanctions and urged Washington to pursue a diplomatic solution.

Khatam-al Anbiya, construction arm of the Islamic Republic's ideological Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is among Iranian state-run concerns that the US State Department designated in 2007 as one of two key Iranian entities of proliferation concern.
The IRGC has significant political and economic power in Iran, with ties to companies controlling billions of dollars in business and construction and an overwhelming presence in Iran's financial and commercial sectors.
It has become increasingly active in the Iranian oil and gas industry and is already involved in the development of phases 15 and 16 of South Pars, a contract it was awarded after Norway's Aker Kvaerner withdrew from the project.

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L'Iran va construire son premier entrepôt de stockage de gaz naturel.

TEHRAN, April 20 (Reuters) - Iran is to build its first storage facility for natural gas, to cope with fluctuating demand, the Oil Ministry's website SHANA reported on Tuesday.

The National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) said the facility would be located at the Sarajeh reservoir at Qom, south of Tehran.
"The injection of gas ... at a rate of 4.5 million cubic meters a day will begin in the second half of the (2010-2011) year and the injection will gradually go up to 9.5 million cmd," NIGC Managing Director, Javad Oji said.

Iran sits on the world's second-largest natural gas reserves after Russia, but U.S. and U.N. sanctions hindering access to foreign investment and technology have slowed its development as a major exporter.
It also lacks sufficient oil and gas refining capacity and in winter has to import gas from Turkmenistan to meet domestic demand.

"One of the characteristics of the Sarajeh repository is that the gas injected into it for the first time would come along with a degree of condensates (impurity) when extracted and will thus need processing," Oji said.
"But with continued injection and extraction from the repository, the dryness (purity) of the gas will increase substantially," he added.

In December last year NIGC said it expected gas production in 2009-2010 to exceed 165 billion cubic metres.

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AFP de ce jour.

L'Iran donné deux semaines aux groupes pétroliers Shell et Repsol pour confirmer leurs investissements dans plusieurs projets gaziers importants en Iran, faute de quoi il attribuera leurs contrats à des société locales, a déclaré lundi un haut responsable iranien.

Cet ultimatum intervient 48 heures après que le ministre iranien du Pétrole Massoud Mirkazemi ait menacé de couper les ponts avec les compagnies pétrolières occidentales qui "traînent" pour réaliser des projets en Iran, notamment dans le secteur gazier.
"Le ministère du Pétrole a fixé un ultimatum à Shell et Repsol, qui ont deux semaines pour prendre une décision sur les phases 13 et 14 (du champ gazier) de South Pars", a déclaré M. Reza Kasaizadeh, directeur de la Compagnie nationale iranienne d'exportation de gaz (NIGEC) cité par l'agence Mehr.
"Si (les deux compagnies) n'agissent pas rapidement, ces deux phases seront attribuées à des sociétés iraniennes compétentes", a-t-il ajouté.

Ces phases incluent le développement et l'exploitation d'une partie du champ gazier offshore géant de South Pars, dans le Golfe, et sont associées à la construction d'une usine de liquéfaction de gaz naturel (LNG) qui permettrait à Téhéran d'exporter ce gaz.
L'Iran, qui possède les deuxièmes réserves mondiales de gaz, n'en exporte pour l'instant quasiment pas car toute sa production de quelque 500 millions de M3/jour est absorbée par son marché domestique.

Au cours des derniers mois, la plupart des groupes pétroliers occidentaux présents en Iran, comme l'anglo-néerlandais Shell, le français Total, le norvégien Statoil ou l'italien ENI ont gelé progressivement tout nouvel investissement.

Le projet d'usine de LNG piloté par Shell (en association avec l'espagnol Repsol et NIGEC) est au point mort depuis 2008, tout comme un projet similaire mené par Total. Shell et Repsol sont impliquées "depuis longtemps" dans ce projet, mais "n'ont toujours pas pris la décision finale d'investissement après tout ce temps", a critiqué M. Kasaizadeh.
L'arrêt des investissements occidentaux dans le secteur pétrolier et gazier résulte des sanctions et pressions occidentales contre le programme nucléaire controversé iranien, selon les experts pétroliers à Téhéran.
Américains et Européens ont mis en place un embargo financier et bancaire contre Téhéran qui complique les investissements étrangers, et ils exercent des pressions politiques de plus en plus fortes pour inciter leurs sociétés à se retirer d'Iran, selon les mêmes sources.

Le retrait des Occidentaux a profité aux société chinoises, devenues cette année le premier investisseur dans le secteur pétrolier iranien avec 15 à 20 milliards de contrats déjà signés. Le chinois CNPC/Petrochina va ainsi notamment remplacer Total sur un projet de développement de South Pars.
Plusieurs contrats de développement de ce gisement géant ont également été accordés récemment à des sociétés iraniennes, dont certaines dépendant du corps des Gardiens de la Révolution, armée idéologique d'élite du régime iranien qui joue une rôle économique croissant.

Un haut responsable des Gardiens de la Révolution a affirmé en avril que les Pasdaran avaient "la compétence et la capacité de se substituer aisément aux grandes compagnies internationales comme Shell ou Total" opérant en Iran.

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L'Iran annonce que d'ici 2012 le gisement de south pars seras capable de produire 175 millions de m3 de gaz par jour.

Gas production at Iran's giant offshore natural gas field South Pars will rise to 175 million cubic metres per day within the next two years, an energy official was quoted as saying on Sunday. Iran has the second biggest gas reserves in the world after Russia, but sanctions over its nuclear energy programme and other factors have slowed its development as a major exporter. It is unable to access the technology it needs to build LNG facilities.

'By the end of Iranian year 1391 (in the next two years) South Pars gas production capacity will increase to 175 million cubic meter per day,' Ali Vakili, managing director of the Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC), told the semi-official Mehr news agency.

Vakili did not say how much of an increase this represents. Production at the field rose by nearly 30 percent during the 2009-10 year, Iran's state Press TV reported last month, to around 59 billion cubic metres of processed gas for the full year, or around 162 million cubic metres per day. 'For developing South Pars we reached the conclusion that we should not wait for foreign companies because at the moment the capability to develop through domestic companies exists,' Vakili said.

Vakili said on April 26 that Royal Dutch Shell and Repsol had one week to decide on their involvement in the natural gas field. Iran says both Anglo-Dutch Shell and Spain's Repsol have procrastinated on finalising their involvement in the field, the world's largest reservoir of gas. It has set similar deadlines in the past as a way of pressuring foreign investors.

The offshore South Pars field contains about half of the estimated 28 trillion cubic metres of the country's gas reserves. South Pars is on the Iranian side of the world's largest known gas reservoir not associated with oil production. Qatar holds the southern section of the field, where it is known as the North Field. Qatar has developed its side of the field to become the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG).

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L'Iran donné deux semaines aux groupes pétroliers Shell et Repsol pour confirmer leurs investissements dans plusieurs projets gaziers importants en Iran, faute de quoi il attribuera leurs contrats à des société locales, a déclaré lundi un haut responsable iranien.

Et bien c'est fait l'Iran a attribué le contrat au gardiens de la révolution.

les phases 13 et 14 de South Pars confiées aux Gardiens de la révolution
AFP 28/05/2010

Les phases 13 et 14 du champ gazier de South Pars (dans le Golfe), initialement attribuées aux groupes Shell et Repsol, seront confiées à la branche économique des Gardiens de la révolution, selon un responsable iranien, cité vendredi par l'agence de presse Mehr.
La plupart des groupes pétroliers occidentaux présents en Iran, comme l'anglo-néerlandais Shell, le français Total, le norvégien Statoil, l'italien ENI ou l'espagnol Repsol, ont gelé au cours des derniers mois tout nouvel investissement dans ce pays.

Américains et Européens ont mis en place un embargo financier et bancaire contre Téhéran, à cause de son programme nucléaire, ce qui complique les investissements étrangers.
Le développement de ces deux phases de South Pars reviendra à un consortium iranien, a déclaré Ali Vakili, directeur général de la compagnie pétrole et gaz de Pars.
Selon lui, ce consortium sera formé de Khatam al-Anbiya, de la société Sadra, de la compagnie nationale de forage et de la compagnie des installations maritimes.
Ces phases incluent le développement et l'exploitation d'une partie du champ gazier offshore géant de South Pars.

M. Vakili a également confirmé que les phases 22, 23 et 24 de South Pars avaient été attribués à Khatam al-Anbiya.
L'Iran, qui possède les deuxièmes réserves mondiales de gaz, n'en exporte pour l'instant quasiment pas car toute sa production de quelque 500 millions de M3/jour est absorbée par son marché intérieur.
Khatam al-Anbiya, créée après la guerre avec l'Irak (1980-88) pour aider à la reconstruction du pays, s'est progressivement diversifiée vers les industries mécaniques, l'énergie, les mines et les industries de défense.
Cette société, ses filiales, ses sous-traitants et ses dirigeants figurent parmi les principales cibles des sanctions économiques décrétées par les Etats-Unis et les pays européens mais aussi par l'ONU à cause du programme nucléaire controversé iranien.

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Et bien c'est fait l'Iran a attribué le contrat au gardiens de la révolution.

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Tu as parlé trop vite Géopolis.

Iran/Gaz : les phases 13 et 14 de South Pars pas confiées aux Pasdaran (officiel)

Le ministère iranien du Pétrole a démenti lundi l'attribution des phases 13 et 14 du champ gazier de South Pars (dans le Golfe) à la branche économique des Gardiens de la révolution (Pasdaran), annoncée vendredi par plusieurs médias iraniens, selon l'agence Mehr.

http://www.boursorama.com/infos/actuali ... de088e01fa

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Iran/gaz : 21 mds USD de contrats pour des entreprises iraniennes

AFP le 15/06/2010

L'Iran a attribué mardi 21 milliards de dollars de contrats pour le développement du gisement gazier géant de South Pars, dans le Golfe, à un ensemble de compagnies iraniennes dont certaines dépendent des Gardiens de la révolution, a annoncé la télévision d'Etat.

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Un article au sujet de la difficulté des Iraniens à developper le Gaz en general et en particulier dans le gisement gigantesque de South Parsà a cause des sanctions et du départ des grandes compagnies occidentales.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 03933.html

Sanctions slow development of huge natural gas field in Iran

Threatened by tougher international and U.S. penalties that target the financing of oil projects and technical support for Iran's energy sector, Western firms such as Shell, Total and Halliburton have pulled out of the development of the South Pars gas field. South Pars is the Iranian portion of a natural gas reservoir about two miles below the Persian Gulf between Iran and Qatar. The reservoir is the world's largest gas field, covering 3,745 square miles and containing an estimated 1,800 trillion cubic feet of gas. About 38 percent of it lies below Iran's territorial waters.

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