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Belarusian Investors Eye Opportunities in Sarakhs Zone

mahla — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 21:14:47 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) At the meeting, the parties explored the potential for establishing a large cargo loading and unloading center within the zone.

Following the discussions, the Belarusian delegation toured the logistics, industrial, and manufacturing infrastructures of the Sarakhs Special Economic Zone.

Speaking to the delegation, Mohammad Reza Rajabi Moghaddam, the manager of the Sarakhs Special Economic Zone, announced the formation of a working group dedicated to economic diplomacy to enhance foreign relations.

“This region offers significant trade opportunities for Belarus due to its proximity to Central Asian republics, particularly Turkmenistan,” said Rajabi Moghaddam.

He further emphasized that mutual cooperation could increase cargo transit capacity to over 10 million tons, and the zone is prepared to assist Belarusian companies with registering businesses, issuing licenses, and facilitating the import of machinery and raw materials.

Highlighting the importance of Iran and Belarus’s membership in the Eurasian Economic Union, Rajabi Moghaddam mentioned that constructing a giant dock for shipments would attract more traders and investors to the zone.

He concluded by noting that the construction and completion of a new logistics site in the zone are planned, which could increase cargo transit from the Sarakhs border to over 15 million tons.

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Dam reservoirs down by 30% in current water year

mahla — Mon, 06 Dec 2021 10:03:22 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The total volume of water in dam reservoirs is estimated at about 17.67 billion cubic meters since the beginning of the current water year (September 23, 2021), showing a 30 percent decrease compared to the same period last year.

An examination of the condition of the country’s dams shows that the total volume of inflows to the country’s dams since September 23, is equal to 2.84 billion cubic meters, which shows a decrease of 44 percent compared to the same period last year (March 2020-March 2021).

Referring to the total capacity of Iran’s dam reservoirs standing at 50.5 billion cubic meters, he said that there is 35 percent of water impounded in dams, IRIB reported on Sunday.

Out of a total of 183 currently operational dams across Iran, 52 are related to the Caspian Sea catchment area, 12 are based in the Urmia basin, 68 dams are located in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman watersheds, 34 dams are in the Central Plateau, 11 dams are in Sarakhs catchment basin, and another six dams are located across the eastern boundary basin (Hamoun).

Renewable water resources have decreased by 30 percent over the last four decades, while Iran’s population has increased by about 2.5 times, Qasem Taqizadeh, deputy minister of energy, has said.

Groundwater resources declining

A recent report by Nature Scientific Journal on Iran’s water crisis indicates that from 2002 to 2015, over 74 billion cubic meters have been extracted from aquifers, which is unprecedented and its revival takes thousands of years along with urgent action.

Three Iranian scientists studied 30 basins in the country and realized that the rate of aquifer depletion over a 14-year period has been about 74 billion cubic meters, which is recently published in Nature Scientific Journal.

Also, over-harvesting in 77 percent of Iran has led to more land subsidence and soil salinity. Research and statistics show that the average overdraft from the country’s aquifers was about 5.2 billion cubic meters per year.
Mohammad Darvish, head of the environment group in the UNESCO Chair on Social Health that the situation of groundwater resources is worrisome.

The report notes that Iran’s water consumption has increased due to a significant increase in legal and illegal wells, the expansion of agricultural land, and increasing livelihood dependence on water and soil resources in agriculture, livestock, and poultry, which are mainly caused by human factors, Darvish noted.

The statistic is unprecedented, as the total reservoirs of all dams in the country have a capacity of about 50 billion cubic meters; In other words, in the last 14 years, 22 billion cubic meters more than the capacity of all dams have been extracted from the country’s underground sources, he explained.

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Iran’s biggest gas storage center goes on stream in Sarakhs

reporter 1222 — Sat, 15 Jun 2019 10:30:44 +0000

The gas storage center at the Khangiran gas field was put into operation with the aim of storing natural gas at 10 million cubic meters.

In this regard, the gas storage center with an estimated amount of $19 million (foreign currency credit) and 170 billion rials (equal to $4 million), was opened.

The project included construction of a gas storage facility, electricity boards, control and emergency shutdown systems, production and reproduction pipelines, and connecting injection pipelines to the center.

The Khangiran operational field is the only source of hydrocarbons in the east and northeast of the country, and about 95 percent of its production gas is sour gas.

Observing HSE (health, safety and environment) is one of the basic points in designing and constructing this project, so that most parts and equipment for construction of this project were manufactured domestically using high capabilities and potentials of domestic suppliers.

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