NGL 2300 Plant Schedule Outlined By NIOC, NGL 1300 Repaired
The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) plans to bring the proposed NGL 2300 plant on-stream in 2010 at an investment cost of $146mn, according to the company’s PIN news service on 19 February. NGL 2300 is one of five NGL recovery plants proposed to recover liquids from associated gas produced in oilfields (MEES, 18 October 2004). NIOC said NGL 2300 would be built near gas gathering unit No 5 in the Ahwaz region, with capacity to process 175mn cfd of gas to be recovered through development of the Khami reservoir in Marun oilfield. NGL 2300 output would be 15,000 b/d of NGLs and 150mn cfd of dry sweet gas.
On 16 February NIOC announced that repairs to the NGL 1300 plant had increased output to 18,000 b/d. NGL 1300 was brought on-stream in October 2003, to recover NGL from associated gas produced in Bibi Hakimeh oilfield, for use as feedstock at the Bandar Imam petrochemical complex (MEES, 13 October 2003). The NGL 1300 plant was intended to recover 21,000 b/d of NGLs, but NIOC said problems in controlling the temperature of carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide removed in the plant’s absorption tower had restricted NGL output.
