The consortium is consisted of Khatam-ol Anbiya Construction Headquarters, Industrial Development and Renovation Organization of Iran (IDRO), and some offshore contractors such as Iran Shipbuilding & Offshore Industries Complex Co (ISOICO), Sadaf, Sadra, and Iranian Offshore Engineering and Construction Company, the Mehr News Agency reported.
Iran and Turkish Petroleum International Company (TPAO) signed an agreement, worth some $7 billion, in 2008 based on which the Turkish side undertook to produce 20.4 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas annually from three development phases of Iran’s South Pars gas field.
In October 2009, Iran gave TPAO a one-month deadline to finalize the deal but extended the deadline by three months.
South Pars field is a gas condensate field located in the Persian Gulf. It is the world’s largest gas field, shared between Iran and Qatar. According to International Energy Agency, the field holds an estimated 50.97 trillion cubic meters (1800 trillion cubic feet) of in-situ gas and some 50 billion barrels of condensates.
Iran, having the world’s second largest gas reserves and third largest oil reserves, is trying to play a more active role in oil and petrochemical transactions in international markets.
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