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Gas instead of diesel in Kish Power Plant saved a billion

reporter 1222 — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 05:34:37 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – By replacing diesel with gas in the Kish Power Plant, the country has saved an equivalent of $1 billion worth of diesel, said the head of the Iranian Offshore Oil Company’s Kish District.

Shahsavar Arghash said one of the major policies of Iranian Offshore Oil Company (IOOC) is to use the capacity of Iranian domestic and oil industry equipment manufacturers, reported Fars News Agency.

He said the project to replace diesel with gas in kish power plant began back in 2006. The gas, which was previously flared, was supplied from oil activities on Siri Island.

The official further said that so far the project had saved 15 million barrels of diesel.

Gas compressors in Kish Island can deliver up to 25 million cubic feet of gas.

Alireza Sadeqabadi, who heads the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company (NIORDC), said in September that Iran’s current production of gasoline, around 115 million liters a day, is enough to pump more than 500,000 tons of the fuel for monthly exports.

He said, however, that NIORDC is ready to increase the export capacity to three million tons a month to generate around 1.5 billion in revenues for the government.

The calculations provided by the official are based on figures obtained from sell-offs of several cargoes of gasoline at the Iran Energy Exchange (IRENEX).

Exports of gasoline and other oil products started in late August 2019 when authorities said there are growing demands from neighboring countries.

The growing sale of gasoline comes less than a decade after Iran decided to launch new production facilities or reprogram current refineries to cut imports of the fuel.

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Germany’s Siemens backs Iran modern power plants

reporter 1222 — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:13:07 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Germany’s engineering giant Siemens is supporting Iran in plans to launch power plants relying on modern gas turbines that would add some 5 gigawatts (GW) to the country’s electricity generation capacity.

A senior official at Iran’s Ministry of Energy said on Saturday that Germany’s Siemens and Iran’s largest energy construction and engineering group Mapna had been cooperating on building F-class gas turbines that would significantly boost efficiency at Iran power plants.

Alireza Nasrollahi said Siemens and Mapna were working on F-class turbines in eight major locations across Iran, a project he said was worth around €2.2 billion.

Nasrollahi said a major batch of the turbines will come online at Iran’s Hengam power plant, located in the southern province of Hormozgan, in February.

He said the launch of the first phase of the Hengam power plant, a gas-fired unit with a capacity of 307 megawatts (MW), will mark the first time a government-run power plant in Iran is using F-class gas turbines.

The official said the installation of all the turbines in the combined cycle 906-MW Hengam, where a second gas-fired unit will come online before next summer, would cost around €500 million.

Siemens has been one of the longest-serving foreign companies in Iran with first activities dating back to more than 150 years ago.

The company, which has been a major contributor to Iran’s infrastructure projects over the past decades, was forced to downsize many of its projects in Iran after the United States imposed a series of unilateral sanctions on the country last year.

However, Iranian officials have hailed Siemens’ commitment to joint venture schemes, including contracts on the transfer of technology, saying it is a sign the company is valuing its long history of presence in the country and shows that the Germans are keen to resume work in Iran once sanctions are lifted.

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Gas power plants technology at Iran’s hand

reporter 1222 — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 13:41:28 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Managing Director of Iranian Electrical Power Equipment Manufacturing and Provision Company says the country is fully able to produce and export all equipment and services needed for the construction of gas power plants.

“Our ability for manufacturing and supplying water and electricity equipment has reached a point where we are not only able to fully meet our domestic demand but also export it to other countries,” Mohammad-Vali Alaedini told IRIB on Tuesday.

“The ministry has set some goals in this regard, which are going to be implemented and achieved by SATKAB,” he said.

He mentioned Iraq, Armenia, Syria and Tajikistan as some of the export destinations for Iranian energy equipment and services, adding “We have achieved 80 percent self-sufficiency in construction of wind power plants, while in construction of gas power plants, hydroelectric power plants and dams we are completely self-sufficient and exporting services to other countries.”

Tajikistan is one of the export destinations that, considering their satisfaction with the works of Iranian engineers, is forming a joint working group with Iran for further imports of engineering services, Alaedini noted.

Since the electricity sector accounts for the lion’s share of Iran’s technical and engineering exports, and also given that Iranian companies’ presence in water projects of other countries (construction of dams, water and wastewater treatment plants, and water transferring pipelines) is rising, Energy Ministry of Iran is seriously following up the objective of boosting technical and engineering services exports from electricity and water sectors.

Of the water and electricity projects under implementation by an Iranian company in a foreign country, it could be referred to as the project for building a dam, a water transferring tunnel and a 120-MW power plant in Sri Lanka which is already 94 percent complete.

According to the Association of Iranian Exporters of Technical and Engineering Services, Iran has the potential and capability to export technical and engineering services worth $25 billion in a year.

Some Iranian companies including Mapna Group have already had a fruitful presence in the completion of infrastructure projects in several countries including Iraq and Oman and if such contribution will be expanded it will be a good source of export revenues while job creation.

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