Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 12

23-Mar-2009

IRAN

South Pars 9-10 Inaugurated By President Ahmadinejad

Irans President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 13 March inaugurated Phases 9 and 10 of the South Pars gas field development, which delivers well fluids from two offshore wellhead platforms to a gas processing plant at Assaluyeh. The development project was said to have cost $4.2bn. The plant has the capacity to deliver 50mn cmd (1.8bn cfd) of gas to Irans domestic grid, plus 80,000 b/d of...