TEHRAN (PIN) – Iran’s Acting Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari pays a visit to phases 6, 7, and 8 of South Pars (SP) field in the Persian Gulf today.

He is scheduled to visit under construction gas refineries of the three phases and development plans of phases 9 and 10 later in the day.
During the one-day visit, Nozari will be accompanied by Akbar Torkan, deputy oil minister for planning affairs, Ali Vakili, the managing director of Pars Oil and Gas Company (POGC), and Gholamreza Manuchehri, the managing director of Petropars Company.
This will be the first time that Nozari pays a visit to South Pars facilities as the ministry’s caretaker.
According to the plan, 28 gas refineries, 25 petrochemical projects, and three liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants will be constructed in the Pars Special Economic Energy Zone.
Phases 1-5 have so far come on stream and phases 6-8 will become operational by the upcoming winter.
South Pars is the world’s largest gas field, holding almost half of Iran’s gas reserves. Located in the strategic Persian Gulf, South Pars -- the largest known gas reserves -- is shared between Iran and the tiny emirate of Qatar. It contains 1,900 TCF of in place gas and 56 billion barrels of in situ condensate in the shared region.
Production started from South Pars after commissioning of Phase 2 in Dec. 2002.