11 May 2012
A Syrian official has expressed his country's willingness to import some 900,000 tons of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) per year from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Syria needs about 900,000 tons of LPG per annum and hopes the amount would be provided by Iran, said Nazih Jouhara, the director general of Syria's General Corporation for Oil Refining and Distribution of Petroleum Products, who was speaking on the sidelines of the joint Venezuelan-Syrian oil delegation visit to Assaluyeh in Iran's southern province of Bushehr.
According to Jouhara, the visit is aimed at finalizing a previous agreement for the construction of a refinery in Syria. In 2009, a joint Iran-Venezuela oil company planned to build a refinery in Syria, with the capacity of refining 140,000 barrels of oil per day. Malaysia and Syria are also involved in the project with Iran and Syria, each taking a 26 percent stake in the project while Venezuela owns 33 percent and Malaysia has 15 percent. During its one-day trip to Assaluyeh, the Venezuelan-Syrian delegation also visited different phases of the South Pars gas field.
The South Pars gas field is shared by Iran and Qatar. The Iranian share, which is divided into 24 phases, has about 14 trillion cubic meters of gas, or about eight percent of the total world reserves, and more than 18 billion barrels of liquefied natural gas resources. Iran, which sits on the world's second largest natural gas reserves after Russia, is making efforts to boost gas production by expanding foreign and domestic investments in energy projects, especially in its South Pars gas field.
A Syrian official has expressed his country's willingness to import some 900,000 tons of LPG (liquefied petroleum gas) per year from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Syria needs about 900,000 tons of LPG per annum and hopes the amount would be provided by Iran, said Nazih Jouhara, the director general of Syria's General Corporation for Oil Refining and Distribution of Petroleum Products, who was speaking on the sidelines of the joint Venezuelan-Syrian oil delegation visit to Assaluyeh in Iran's southern province of Bushehr.
According to Jouhara, the visit is aimed at finalizing a previous agreement for the construction of a refinery in Syria. In 2009, a joint Iran-Venezuela oil company planned to build a refinery in Syria, with the capacity of refining 140,000 barrels of oil per day. Malaysia and Syria are also involved in the project with Iran and Syria, each taking a 26 percent stake in the project while Venezuela owns 33 percent and Malaysia has 15 percent. During its one-day trip to Assaluyeh, the Venezuelan-Syrian delegation also visited different phases of the South Pars gas field.
The South Pars gas field is shared by Iran and Qatar. The Iranian share, which is divided into 24 phases, has about 14 trillion cubic meters of gas, or about eight percent of the total world reserves, and more than 18 billion barrels of liquefied natural gas resources. Iran, which sits on the world's second largest natural gas reserves after Russia, is making efforts to boost gas production by expanding foreign and domestic investments in energy projects, especially in its South Pars gas field.
© Tehran Times 2012
